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.
Saturday, 30 July 2011
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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!