Tag Archives: The Sun

The Sun’s inventive back page

August 26, 2010 – 3:04 pm

Readers of Football365′s Mediawatch section will be aware of just how much stuff on the back pages of newspapers is utter fiction, but one example struck me recently as pretty breathtaking: ‘Carlos Tevez in Euro taunt at Manchester United‘. The opening line of the article claims that: CARLOS TEVEZ says winning the Europa League with [...]

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No journalistic justification

July 4, 2010 – 12:46 pm

Continuing the theme that the Daily Mail will use any excuse to print pictures of half-naked women comes this story: Again, there is no journalistic justification for including this photo. It is simply used to attract the eager clicks of visitors curious as to whether the photo is repeated next to the article without any [...]

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A Fishy Tale

June 17, 2010 – 3:13 pm

Hot on the heels of the cute pig in wellies suicidally promoting sausages comes this story about a Piranha supposedly caught in Kent: ‘Mystery of the killer Piranha caught by angler in a FOLKESTONE pond‘. As unlikely as this sounds the original headline is one of the most laughable that I have seen in a [...]

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Journalistic Standards

June 8, 2010 – 9:14 pm

Another day, another lazy Richard Littlejohn column. His main article is criticising an four-page leaflet produced by the Food Standards Agency, which mainly involves quoting large chunks of it verbatim (presumably, but you never know). Out of 922 words, 230 words (around 25%) are copied word-for-word, whilst another 50% seems to be paraphrased from the [...]

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The Sun on Tiger Woods crashing into a tree – He’s having an affair!

November 28, 2009 – 1:03 pm

Whereas the Guardian have written a normal article based on FACTS. The Sun have taken it into their own hands to publish unfounded accusations. Many other newspapers have covered the story, including the Express, the Independent, and the Times and none of them have given these accusations the light of day. So where did the [...]

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