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Daily Mail use actor to portray disability claimants as layabouts

4:00pm Mon November 8th

The Scrapbook team have only just come across this Daily Mail story from a few weeks back. The paper, which rarely seems worried about parodying itself, reports the controversial measures outlined in the Government’s Spending review to slash more than £1 billion from the Disability Living Allowance budget with a picture of your average disability claimant: sat on a leather settee, feet up, with remote control in one hand and roll-up fag in the other.

In keeping with the Mail’s commitment to accurate photo reportage, this scene is posed by a model:

Inspired by this use of posing stooges, we’ve had a crack at creating our own photo/caption combination:

Perhaps this could accompany a piece on the history of the Daily Mail?

Internet Explorer: Daily Mail edition

3:34pm Thu November 4th

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No, we’re not making this up. Created to promote the launch of Internet Explorer 8, there exists a version of Microsoft’s browser that is “customised for Mail Online”:

Not wanting to infect our computers with software that would presumably start emailing Damian Green on our behalf, Scrapbook and friends could only speculate as to what this might involve:

And one presumes it can easily delete your internet history of upskirt, down top, crotch shots and VPL?

Irony FAIL on Daily Mail front page

7:30am Sat October 23rd

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Today’s Mail front page is a master-class in juxtaposition hilarity:

Top banner: WILL YOU FIND £50 INSIDE THIS PAPER? Or a Twenty? Or a Tenner? Or a Fiver? We’ve put REAL CASH in thousands of copies of today’s Daily Mail
Main headline: A VICTORY FOR GREED

This is surely one of the best newspaper irony failures of the past year.

Or perhaps someone on the Mail’s layout desk has a sense of humour?

Joined up Daily Mail

6:06pm Fri September 17th

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With Daily Mail owner DMGT having shed 43% of its share value since mid-2007, perhaps they should try a little harder not to offend their advertisers? Thursday’s front page attributes to Stephen Fry the leadership of an ”atheist hate campaign” responsible for “spitting venom” and resultant “deepening hostility between the Vatican and secular campaigners”. But the paper seems to change tack by page 27, printing an advert from describing him as “Honest, funny, touching”.

“As Pope flies in for historic visit, Vatican aide brands UK a Third World country – fuelling atheist hate campaign led by Stephen Fry” – Daily Mail front page

“Honest, funny, touching. Try Mr. Fry for half price” – Daily Mail page 27

Suffice it to say there is no love lost here: Fry previously described the Mail as …

“a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with.”

Daily Mail photoshops blue penis onto George Osborne

2:14pm Sat September 11th

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UPDATE: Is this, as some have suggested, Gideon’s suit lining? We’re not sure as this is the cut of his other suits.

UPDATE II: It’s gone! The Mail have finally pulled the graphic from the original article. This is what suit lining should look like.

Yes, you read that post title correctly. The Daily Mail, owing substantially to a sidebar filled with up-skirt, down top, crotch shots and Christine Bleakley’s visible panty line, boasts the UK’s most popular newspaper website with 40 million unique readers each month. But it’s reassuring to see them catering to the appetites of its female readers with this risque rendering of our beloved Chancellor of the Exchequer.

At the time of writing (and 16 hours after the blooper went viral on Twitter) the following graphic is still available on the article “Lib Dems in revolt at Osborne’s plans to hit workshy with another £4bn in welfare cuts”:

That’s one more blue member for the Tories then.

Hat-tip: Sunny Hundal

Disgusted of Salisbury

10:33am Tue August 31st

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When asked as to his “reading material of choice” the new Tory MP for Salisbury John Glen tells ConservativeHome:

“I read most of the main political blogs each day and all papers – especially the Daily Mail headlines in order to anticipate some of my email correspondence for the week ahead!”

This reminds Scrapbook of an anecdote related by a man who worked responding to complaints at the BBC. He was exasperated by the preponderance of letters that were variations on a theme of: ”I didn’t see [programme name] but I read in [the Mail or Express] that it was absolutely disgraceful!”

The staffer confessed he had drafted (but not dispatched) several responses which read:

“Well I didn’t read your letter but I heard that it was complete b****cks”.

Quote of the day: Dacre dump edition

7:14pm Thu April 1st

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“Just who was it last Friday, who laid an enormous turd on the floor next to the lifts on the first floor of Daily Mail offices?” – Popbitch

This blogger has his suspicions.

Facebook to sue Daily Mail over "child grooming" story

2:01pm Thu March 11th

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“Even after 15 years in child protection, I was shocked by what I encountered when I spent just five minutes on Facebook posing as a 14-year-old girl. Within 90 seconds, a middle-aged man wanted to perform a sex act in front of me.

I was deluged by strangers asking stomach-churning questions about my sexual experience. I was pressured to meet men with whom I’d never before communicated.

So I wasn’t surprised that a vulnerable teenager, Ashleigh Hall, was groomed on Facebook before being brutally raped and killed.”

And so began the Daily Mail’s double-page hatchet job on Facebook (edited legal retreat version here). This would be incredibly damaging for the social networking giant. Damaging, that is, if it happened not to be a load of b****cks:

The original author, Mark Williams-Thomas, had told the paper that the social network he referred to in the article was not Facebook.
He re-asserted this when sent a draft of the story with Facebook named.
The Mail’s own expert backed up Williams-Thomas, repeating that the network described couldn’t be Facebook.

But they went ahead and published it anyway! Global Dashboard has the full story.

Daily Mail: keeping you afraid since 1896.

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