In an amusing twist, a poll on the Daily Mail homepage appears to show 84% of visitors to the site support the today’s industrial action. This is in stark contrast to the Mail‘s vehemently anti-strike frontpage this morning. It also provides an odd counterpoint to their lead story, quoting David Cameron’s description of the two-million-worker walkout [...]
Whilst the rest of the internet was announcing Amanda Knox had been cleared of murder, the Daily Mail clearly had different ideas. In the excitement of the news breaking, it seems someone at the newspaper’s offices has pressed the wrong button, and posted the wrong pre-prepared version. The erroneous story was quickly taken down but [...]
The Daily Mail have exploited the tragic accidental death of a child to attack teachers taking industrial action. In what is apparently a freak accident, 13 year-old Sophie Howard was struck by a large branch as she sat on a park bench in Peterborough. But this did not stop the paper laying the blame for the [...]
Yesterday afternoon saw the Daily Mail run particularly lurid speculation, even by its own base standards, about the “suicidal” state of former US senator John Edwards. The quote features a quote from “a close friend” who, naturally, cannot be named because they are almost certainly invented: Disgraced politician John Edwards is said to be deeply [...]
Having championed the ageism case of Countryfile presenter Miriam O’Reilly and excoriating the BBC for a “slapdash approach to recruitment”, the Daily Mail has been forced to amend the wording of one of its own job vacancies. An advert in the Media Guardian inviting applications for a year-long course at the Mail’s own trainee reporters scheme originally [...]
Few will be surprised by the Daily Mail today, supporting the right of business owners to discriminate against gay couples after a court ruled in favour of civil partners Martyn Hall and Steven Preddy, who were denied a bed in a B&B by the owners. Many won’t even be surprised by the Orwell-referencing headline of: [...]
One would assume the issue of road pricing would be far from the minds of journalists covering the murder of Joanna Yeates. Not the Mail’s Liz Jones, however, who uses the horrific murder and abduction of the Bristol architect as a platform for a cheap attack on the toll for Clifton Suspension Bridge, suggesting that [...]
Please forgive the delay in highlighting this cock-up from the intrepid truth seekers at the Daily Mail. Writing on the so-called “ruthless discipline” imposed on the 2010 intake by Conservative Party whips this week, Andrew Pierce cited the example of Tracey Crouch’s abstention on tuition fees: Crouch, born to a single mother and brought up [...]
