In a Robert Murat style mass-grovel, eight papers (Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mirror, the Sun, the London Paper and the Daily Express, plus Times Online and Metro Online) and Sky News have apologised and paid 'substantial' libel damages to a woman whose house wasn't trashed during a party at her house that wasn't organised via Facebook. Read the story here.
Talking of Murat, he has given a speech to the Oxford Union talking about his experiences of the media. It would be good the read the full speech but Michael White's report contains plenty of good detail.
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