Tag Archives: Daily Mail

The MailOnline’s spinning moral compass

January 17, 2012 – 9:12 pm

The MailOnline has become an increasing flesh-fest of celebrities, reality TV stars and anyone else vaguely worthy of a bikini-shot mention. However, at the same time the Daily Mail website retains the hypocrisy that has been a long-time feature of the print edition; as ever it is a case as do as we preach, not [...]

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MailOnline fakes Austrian snowstorm picture

January 11, 2012 – 12:21 am

MailOnline have an article on heavy snow in Austria, and have decided to claim that a photograph taken in a famously snowy region of Japan is actually of one of the locations in Austria that they describe in the article. Here is the photograph from the MailOnline homepage (note a pretty dire headline fail as [...]

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Daily Mail still not exactly racially sensitive

January 7, 2012 – 1:39 pm

In the week that Paul Dacre tried to claim credit for bringing two racist murderers to justice the Daily Mail website is quickly returning to form with some standard comment moderation in which racially abusive comments are happily let through, even though the comments section clearly states that all comments are being moderated. The story [...]

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Daily Mail nicking photos, again

January 6, 2012 – 10:54 pm

This time from blogger IanVisits: The blog post in question is the one the other day about the anniversary of the Cock Lane ghost… I trawled through my own collection of vintage newspapers and engravings to see if I could add much more to the story – but ended up with a summary of the [...]

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The Daily Mail’s initial coverage of the Stephen Lawrence murder

January 5, 2012 – 11:51 pm

A lot of rumours and half-truths have been buzzing around Twitter and comment threads about how the Daily Mail initially reported the Stephen Lawrence case, and why Paul Dacre allegedly changed from being hostile towards it to one of its biggest champions. In 1997 The Observer and Guardian newspapers covered the Daily Mail’s famous ‘Murderers’ [...]

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