Tag Archives: misleading headlines

Thomas the Tank Engine Bans Christmas!

October 2, 2011 – 9:58 am

Kind of, according to the Mail on Sunday Reporter: ‘Thomas the Tank Engine forced to carry ‘decorated tree’ for ‘winter holidays’ as Christmas is banned on Sodor‘. The article claims: Thomas the Tank Engine has been accused of joining the politically correct bandwagon after Christmas was written out of one of his adventures. The team [...]

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Human Rights wrongly blamed, again

September 26, 2011 – 9:23 pm

Another day, another chance to blame Human Rights for something: ‘Prison van driven 96 miles to take defendant 60 YARDS to court as “walking will infringe his human rights”‘. The Mail claims: A prison van travelled 96 miles to transfer a defendant just 60 yards from a police station to a court because walking would [...]

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Bad local journalism becomes terrible national journalism

April 3, 2011 – 3:40 pm

Sometimes a story is covered accurately by the regional press, only for the national media to step in and distort it to suit a particular media narrative. However, on other occasions the local press are just of guilty of terrible journalism as their national rivals. Today’s example is this story in the Daily Mail: ‘Royal [...]

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Daily Mail polls readers on nonexistent EU car ban

March 29, 2011 – 11:13 pm

Minority Thought has already covered the Daily Express story that claimed the EU was trying to ban all cars from cities – a story that turned out – unsurprisingly – to be absolute rubbish. As stated quite clearly by the European Commission in the UK: Contrary to comments made by a government Minister today, the [...]

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Anti-journalism

March 28, 2011 – 10:03 pm

‘Facebook puts vulnerable children at risk of depression, warn doctors‘ [istyosty link]. From the article: ‘A lot of what’s happening is actually very healthy, but it can go too far,’ [Dr Megan Moreno] said… Parents shouldn’t get the idea that using Facebook ‘is going to somehow infect their kids with depression,’ she said. Too late, [...]

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