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MailOnline fakes Austrian snowstorm picture

January 11, 2012 – 12:21 am

Tweet 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 [...]

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Here lies Winterval: 1998-2011?

November 8, 2011 – 8:55 pm

Tweet So, after a lot of resistance – distorted, truth-bending resistance – the Daily Mail have published a correction after Melanie Phillips claimed that: Christmas has been renamed in various places ‘Winterval’. Tabloid Watch has charted the great effort the complainant – regular Tabloid Watch reader James – went to in order for the Daily [...]

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One minute, you’re relaxing on holiday…

October 30, 2011 – 1:07 pm

Tweet The next, someone contacts you to tell you that you’re in the Daily Mail and you soon realise that whilst you were out of the country someone had grabbed your life, twisted out of all recognition and published it to the world. Welcome to the story of Hayley Quinn who this happened to in [...]

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Do computer games leave children with ‘dementia’?

October 14, 2011 – 7:41 pm

Tweet Daily Mail headline: ‘Computer games leave children with ‘dementia’ warns top neurologist’. The first two paragraphs of the article: Children’s brains could be left damaged and they could suffer temporary ‘dementia’ by playing computer games, a leading scientist has warned. Eminent neurologist Baroness Susan Greenfield said yesterday that spending time online gaming and browsing [...]

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Daily Telegraph reheats Daily Mail rubbish

October 10, 2011 – 10:11 pm

Tweet Last week the Daily Mail claimed that Thomas the Tank Engine had got rid of Christmas in an attempt to be politically correct. The article did seem to contradict this claim by including the following two paragraphs near the end: Hit Entertainment, the company behind the DVD, said: ‘It was put out some time [...]

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