Daily Mail joins the US lunatic fringe


by Sunny Hundal    
12:24 pm - September 17th 2009

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…the Daily Mail is still carrying a factually inaccurate story published the previous Sunday morning.

And it’s not like they haven’t been told it’s inaccurate, comment after comment in the 279 thus far point out exactly why they are wrong.

What’s interesting is exactly how come they are wrong.

Inaccuracies often come about because one newspaper is mugged or fed a line, believes it and then, like lemmings, everyone else falls off the cliff. This is often the case with crowd numbers, someone will carry an organisers claim and that gets reproduced.

…more at the Online Journalism Blog

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1. WHS

Oh dear! The arrogance of the blogosphere! They’ve been told the troof by “comment after comment” in the threads, indeed. I’d trust comments in a Mail thread even less than I would an article in the paper.

2. tim f

“joins”?

3. JSlayerUK

And we’re what, surprised by this?


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