The
lead story on the front page of Sunday's People is about Shem Davies, who has become a grandad at the age of 29. It is, they say, an 'exclusive':

But can they really claim it is an 'exclusive' when the
Sun reported on Shem's family two weeks ago, on 15 July?

It's not the only example of a tabloid splashing an old story on its front page in the past week.
On Thursday,
MailOnline published an article about Naomi Jacobs, a woman in her thirties who woke up one day thinking she was 15:

Naomi's story of suffering with transient global amnesia was
picked up by the Sun for Friday's front page:

It's an interesting story.
Indeed, the
Independent newspaper thought it so interesting they published an article about it back on 14 June.
Re: Memory loss article - And The Guardian covered it, with slightly different details, in 2008: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/aug/23/healthandwellbeing
ReplyDelete"...a mature woman with wrinkles"
ReplyDeleteShe's only 32!