The Mail says:
An article on 19 July reported, in common with other newspapers, that the NHS paid £32.27 per loaf of gluten-free bread for patients with coeliac disease.
In fact, this was the price for an average prescription of several loaves; the price per loaf was around £2.82.
The original stories were shown to be rubbish within a day of publication. The Sun corrected it a month ago. So why has it taken the Mail three months (in total) to put it right? And after all that time, why haven't they apologised for getting it so badly wrong?
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"And after all that time, why haven't they apologised for getting it so badly wrong?"
ReplyDeleteI know you're kidding, right? Perhaps we should have a word with the PCC... that'll stop 'em!
To be fair, they've got many years of corrections to catch up on
ReplyDeleteI see that the Mail tries to play down the significance of the mistake blame by pointing out that other papers also made the same mistake. But isn't this just admission that it was another piece of churnalism where several papers picked up a story from an agency and copied and pasted the story without checking out if the story was true?
ReplyDeleteThere still hasn't been an apology from the Conservative AM (their shadow health minister in Wales, no less) who put out the misleading figures in a press release.
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