Posts Tagged ‘daily mail’
Daily Mail scare stories of the week: death by a single sausage
SCARE Stories: It’s the Daily Mail – the paper that seeks out news way to die every day:
Monday:
Page 3: ” Rise in elderly addicted to drink”
Page 3: ” Have at least two alcohol free days, says MPs”
(This is followed by Thursday’s news: “Cheers! How a few drinks relese the feelgood factor in our brains”)
Page 13: “The concrete cancer that is crippling our roads” – Even roads get cancer in the Mail.
Page 19: “Is Peppa Pig making toddlers naughty?”
Page 41: “I lived for 20 yars knowing my mother would kill herself”
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Posted: 13th, January 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Leveson Inquiry: The Guardian and Daily Mail have different versions of the Steve Whittamore story
THE Mail on Sunday’s editor Peter Wright told the Leveson Inquiry into media standards that reporters from his newspaper continued using convicted private investigator Steve Whittamore after his March 2003 arrest on suspicion of trading illegally obtained information with the press and magazines. Whittamore was investigated as part of an Information Commissioner’s Office investigation into the illegal purchase of confidential information named Operation Motorman.
Lord Justice Leveson said:
“Mr Whittamore had collected together a vast amount of personal data.The documents identify the names of titles, specify journalists at the titles apparently or inferentially making the requests. It identifies the names of people from a wide range of public life and in the public eye, and provides addresses, telephone numbers, mobile telephone numbers and charging details for that information.”
The Mail and MoS continued using Whittamore until September 2004. In 2005, Whittamore was was convicted of illegally accessing data and passing it to journalists.
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Posted: 12th, January 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
Now: Daily Mail and Daily Express ‘Now’ front-page Headlines for 2011
NOW Watch is Anorak’s review of how many time the Daily Express and Daily Mail used the words “NOW” in front-page headlines during 2011. Now… is the verbal sigh of the right-minded. Now is the sound of importent outrage as a reader clacks their marmalade-coated tongue, shakes their head and says, “Now what have they only gone and done?” What Now?
“Now a law for foreign aid” – Mail, Dec 3
“Now love cheat football star sues twitter” – Mail, May 21
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Stephen Lawrence: How Paul Dacre’s chance meeting with Neville Lawrence helped justice
IT’S Day 3 of the Daily Mail’s post-verdict reporting on the murder of Stephen Lawrence by David Norris and Gary Dobson. The Mail deserves credit for its fantastic headline which labelled five men “MURDERERS” – including the convicted Dobson and Norris. It was brave and exciting journalism. Mail editor Paul Dacre’s tale of what went on in the newsroom is a great read. The Daily Mail is understandably pleased with itself.
So far the paper has led with:
January 4 front page: “MURDERERS! – 15 years ago, the Mail took the momentous decision to accuse five racist thugs of murder, Yesterday, as Stephen Lawrence finally got justice, we were proved right about two of them. Now what about the other three…”
The story runs for 21 pages.
Jan 5 front page: “NO PLACE TO HIDE – Judge jails two of Stephen’s ‘evil’ killers then tells police to hunt down thre ‘three or four’ others still at large’.
“EXCLUSIVE: Doreen Lawrence opens her heart and cherished family photos album”
7 pages.
Jan 6 front page: “EXCLUSIVE: How Stephen’s murder destroyed my marriage”
Over three pages, Stephen Lawrence’s father, Neville Lawrence, shows more photos of his son and tells his own life story.
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Posted: 6th, January 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
Aidan Burley joins the Daily Mail’s Nazi party
GOOD to see that the Daily Mail had learnt from its past mistakes, exposing Tory MP Aidan Burley for being at Stag do in France where the looming groom was dressed up as a Nazi and the toff-faced “louts” chanted “Hitler, Hitler, Hitler” and similar things. The Mail realises that such things are wrong. It slammed Prince Harry’s “crashing insensitivity” wearing a Nazi armband to a fancy dress party.
The Mail has eschewed Nazi japes ever since it cheered on the Black Shirts with hearty “Hurrah!” in the 1930s and had Lord Rothmere, the paper’s owner, write in 1933: “The minor misdeeds of individual Nazis would be submerged by the immense benefits the new regime is already bestowing on Germany.”
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Posted: 28th, December 2011 | In: Politicians | Comment
Daily Mail buries Liverpool’s Luis Suarez in hypocrisy
FOR a newspaper like the Daily Mail whose Steve Doughty said racism in football was no big deal, the decision to assassinate Liverpool’s Luis Suarez in print is weird. Suarez has been found guilty of using racist language towards the ears of Manchester United’s Patrice Evra. (See here.) Liverpool and Suarez deny any wrongdoing.
Chris Wheeler adapts the Mail’s failed editorial policy to castigate Suarez:
Considering Luis Suarez had just received a seven-match ban and been branded the ‘Cannibal of Ajax’ when he moved to Anfield in January, Liverpool should perhaps have realised their new £22.8million signing might land himself in hot water sooner or later.
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Posted: 21st, December 2011 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
A Daily Mail Christmas: Mad Friday, Panic Saturday and Chaos Sunday
THE Daily Mail Christmas features Mad Friday, Panic SAturday, Chaos Sunday…and to follows: Manic Monday, Tuesday Tuesday, Woeful Wednesday and Everyone dead by Teamtime Thursday…
Posted: 18th, December 2011 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Daily Mail says ‘At Last’ Etta James is going to die
ETTE James has cancer. She is terminally ill. Etta James, fabulous singer of wonderful songs, might not have long leftin this world. So. How does the Daily Mail report on her condition? Why, with this. All news organs like to be first with news that a star has died – but does the Mail need to be obvious in its enthusiasm?
Posted: 18th, December 2011 | In: Music | Comment (1)
Daily Mail Introduces David Beckham’s New Son – Who’s The Mum?
THE Daily Mail says David Beckham has had a son – and like his sister, he’s called Harper.
Anorak understands better than most that typoos happen, but might this be an error by the Daily Mail news delivery service, which in the thrust to scream FIRST produces two versions for every story? Had David Beckham’s daughter been a boy named Harper, the Mail and its impeccable sources would have been bang on.
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Posted: 11th, December 2011 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Bullshit.com: How The Dail Mail Won The Web
THE Daily Mail online is the most-read news site in the Western world. The website is the subject of a piece in Esquire entitled “Bullshit.com”.
The headline comes from Dacre’s comment at the Daily Mail summer party at Hampton Court:
“A lot of people say that the internet is the future for newspapers. Well, I say to that: bullshit.com.”
Helen Lewis has been picking out the best bits:
* Martin Clarke [editor] shock: “You can only do so much showbiz in a postmodern ironic way before it becomes tedious.”
* “The animals that do best are monkeys, dogs and cats… You can’t do kittens in tea cups any more. That’s twee.”
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Daily Mail Health Tuesday: Your Asthma Is A Killer Lung Disease
DAILY Mail Health Tuesday: More ways to get ill and die…
Page 7: “Children from middle-class backgrounds are just as likely to be spending too long in front of TV screens as those from poorer homes…”
Page: 11: “1 in 4 patients say their local hospital is not up to standard”
This might be encouraging news. Three is four say it is…
Page 13: “Headers do injure brain”
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Daily Mail Apologises For Blaming Cancer On Immigrants And Attractive Women
THE Daily Mail has apologised for saying that immigrants give you cancer and slamming attractive young women for being slappers and older women for being old … Well, maybe not. Someone might have just made it up...
Spotter: B3ta, via @jonathanhaynes
Daily Mail Health Tuesday: Death By Frozen Bread
IT’S Health Tuesday in the Daily Mail – more news ways to fall ill and die!
“Obesity. Bloating. Bowel problems. Headaches….SHOULD YOU STOP EATING BREAD?”
This includes section headlined:
Your brains is hooked on bread
The modern loaf we can’t stomach
Exotic holidays make things worse
Why freezing a loaf can be bad for your tum
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Posted: 22nd, November 2011 | In: Reviews | Comments (4)
Daily Mail: Tea Gives You Cancer And Cervical Cancer Jab Turns You Into A Zombie
IT’S Health Tuesday In The Daily Mail: New ways to fall ill and die this week:
Front cover: “Downside of losing weight that no one tells you about. The answer: “distressing skin problems”
Page 41: “My stoke was a migraine that lasted TWO years”
Page 19: “Too much TV can cause depression”
Page 20: “Contraceptive pill linked to the rise in case of prostate cancer”
Page 27: “Bulimia, Woody and me – In a self-lacerating memoir, Diane Keaton reveals the eating disorder that blighted her affair with Woody Allen – and how doomed flings with Beatty and Pacino left her loveless and alone”
Or to put a positive spin on it: I shagged Beattie and Pacino, and had a brilliant Hollywood career, by Diane Keaton
Page 29: “GIRL OF 13 SLEEPING FOR 23 HOURS A DAY AFTER REACTION TO CERVICAL CANCER JAB”
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Scare Story: Daily Mail’s Lauren Paxman Says Lucy Hinks’ Waking Coma Was Caused By The Cervical Cancer Jab
SCARE Story of The Day: The Cervarix vaccine. The Daily Mail’s Lauren Paxman has news of Lucy Hinks:
Lucy Hinks is unable to walk or talk after having injections at school
Parents warn others to check on potential side effects of Cervarix vaccine
The statements are delivered as fact:
Girl, 13, left in ‘waking coma’ and sleeps for 23 hours a day after severe reaction to cervical cancer jabs
The news is clear: the jabs have made Lucy Hinks ill. Only, they might not have.
You might suppose Paxman is the victim of the Mail’s sub-editors, for whom everything is bad. But she states:
A schoolgirl has been left in a ‘waking coma’, too exhausted to open her eyes or speak, after having a cervical cancer vaccine.
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Posted: 14th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts | Comments (6)
Daily Mail Scare Story: Sucked Pens Give You MRSA But Prevent Cancer
DAILY Mail Health Tuesday: This week’s news ways to die – your pen will give you MRSA but save you from cancer:
Page 14: ” Colonisaion by Stealth – Once, it took an invading army. Now Germany’s using economic rpessure to topples leaders and take over Europe sate by state, sats Simon Heffer”
Page 43: “Revealed, the hidden reason thousands of women are forgetful and depressed”
Reason: Caroline had eight kidney stones
And this week’s Star Scare:
Page 47: Lucy Elkins delivers:
“Don’t borrow that Biro – it could give you food poisoning”
A friend passes you their mobile phone to show you a picture of their child looking adorable or their favourite holiday beach. But be careful — they may be sharing more than just memories with you. In a study published last month, scientists swabbed 390 mobile phones and found that almost every one harboured bacteria.
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Daily Mail Health Tuesday: Killer Fridges, Bad Dreams And Violent Porn
SCARE Stories: It’s Health Tuesday in the Daily Mail: New ways to die:
Page 7: “Are you lonesome tonight? If the answer’s yes, you might sleep badly”
Page 7: “An odd number house makes you £500 richer”
Or to put it another way, an even number house makes you £500 poorer.
Pages 28 and 29: “It’s not just the internet that’s full of violent porn – so are cinemas”
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Daily Mail Says Deaths Of Fayz Uddin And Sara Rylance Is All About Muslims
FAYZ Uddin, 18, and Sara Rylance, 17, have died in Sethwick, Wet Midlands. They are the subject of the Daily’s Mail’s story:
Muslim boy and non-Muslim girl in ‘forbidden love’ relationship die after falling into canal
Not “Christian girl and non-Christian body…” Not “Teenage boy and…”. The emphasis is on “Muslim”.
The Mail’s Oliver Pickup says the pair were in a “forbidden” relationship. They died in what police call a “tragic accident”.
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Posted: 27th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (6)
Why Is The Daily Mail In A Rush To Find Chelsea’s John Terry Guilty Of (Alleged) Racism?
JOHN Terry (Chelsea and England) V The Media and, apparently, QPR’s Anton Ferdinand. How a newspaper story works:
Daily Mail – October 27, 2011:
John Terry will be confronted by evidence from three QPR players who have backed Anton Ferdinand in the FA’s race row inquiry. Sportsmail understands that Clint Hill, Paddy Kenny and Shaun Derry have provided statements that point to a serious flaw in Terry’s version of events at Loftus Road on Sunday.
Ferdinand was baffled by the statement the England and Chelsea captain issued on Sunday night, particularly his claim that YouTube footage showed him responding to an accusation from Ferdinand that Terry had just called him ‘a black ****’.
Kenny, Derry and Hill — an active players’ union representative — question whether any such exchange took place, given that Ferdinand had no knowledge of a racial element to what was said until after the game.
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Posted: 27th, October 2011 | In: Sports | Comments (6)
Daily Mail Health Tuesday: Losing A Leg To Killer Cheese
IT’S Health Tuesday in the Daily Mail: News ways to die and fall sick:
Page 3: “Camilla: I watched in horror as Mama died slowly and in agony from osteoporosis”
Page 9: “1930s method of bringing on birth’s is safer’ – Modern treatment linked to side effects”
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Daily Mail Health Tuesday: Twisting My Neck Gave Me A Stroke
DAILY Mail Health Tuesday: New ways to die:
Front page: “GPs ban patients just for daring to complain”
Page 9: “How smokers ‘face being hit by early menopause'”
Page 13: “Those educational TV shows can ‘stunt your child’s brain'”
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Daily Mail’s Clarifications & Corrections Column Does Nothing To Erase Mail Online Errors
HATS off to the Daily Mail for its new Clarifications & Corrections column at the foot of Page 2. It is all to do with upholding and raising standards in journalism.
The Mail’s editor-in-chief Paul Dacre tells the Leveson inquiry into press standards, “the depressing fact that the newspaper industry is in a sick financial state“.
He laments the state of investigative journalism:
“Courts aren’t covered, councils aren’t held to account.” It is a “democratic deficit which itself warrants an inquiry”.
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Posted: 17th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)
Now The Daily Mail’s Regular Lament
NOW… Now is the sound of exasperation, the Daily Mail turning to the group, clacking its marmalade-coated tongue and rolling its eyes. Today the Mail leads with:
“NOW THEY’RE SLAPPING A TAX ON FACE-LIFTS”
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Is the Daily Mail Stalking Amanda Knox? Nadia Gilani Has News On Foxy’s Burka Disguise
ANOTHER day and with it another chance for the Daily Mail to reports on Amanda Knox, the innocent American who never did take part in a demonic sex orgy and murder Meredith Kercher. Knox is the innocent American ‘found guilty‘ by the Daily Mail’s technology and Nick Pisa’s quotes.
Of course, Meredith Kercher is the Mail’s Our Meredith, a British woman who was ruined by incompetent Italians (didn’t they free the innocent woman? – ed) and influential Americans who were, er, forced to sell lots of their stuff and go into debt to fight for their daughter.
The Mail’s Nadia Gilani delivers:
Helping hand: Amanda Knox tries to disguise herself as she enjoys an arm-and-arm walk with her best girl friend
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Posted: 15th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
Daily Mail Reporter Covers The Neaden Fire Victims: Gets Three Names Wrong
THE Daily Mail is the paper of record. When a fire ripped through a Neasden home in September 2011, Muna Elmufatish, 41, her three daughters Hanin, 14, Basma, 13 Yehya, two, and two sons Amal, nine, Mustafa, five, died, the paper reacted quickly. There was less a need to be accurate than there was to be first.
The Daily Mail Reporter wrote:
This is the first picture of Basma Kua, 13, who died in a house fire along with five other members of her family. Thirty firefighters were called to the semi-detached property in Sonia Gardens, Neasden, north-west London during the early hours of this morning after a blaze took hold of the ground and first floors. The other victims were Basma’s sisters Amal, nine, and Hannin, 14, their younger brothers Yaya, two, and Mustafa, five, and also their mother Mona, 41.
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Posted: 14th, October 2011 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
