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Monday, 31 October 2011

Five months on, Mail corrects front page splash

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On Friday 27 May, the Daily Mail claimed the 'UK doles out more aid than any other country'. They were so sure of this 'fact...
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Wednesday, 26 October 2011

Mail apologises to Carole Caplin

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On 18 September 2010, the Mail's front page looked like this: 'Will Carole Caplin lift the lid on Blairs' marriage?' it...
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Tuesday, 25 October 2011

'Just put up with it'

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The Mail's Steve Doughty - who repeated the 'BBC drops BC/AD' myth a week after it had been denied and debunked - has turned hi...
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Mail 'sets the record straight' on another Littlejohn column

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On 5 August, Richard Littlejohn wrote : From time to time I may have written about both asylum seekers and wheelie bins. But never befor...
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Saturday, 22 October 2011

Oh deer

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Daily Mail, Monday 17 October : The tiny deer that causes 42,000 crashes every year They are just two foot long and as cute as Bambi bu...
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Express misleads on EU poll results

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The front page of Saturday's Daily Express claims: '75% say: 'Quit the EU now'' . That's the way the Express ha...
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Wednesday, 19 October 2011

Two 'substantial' payouts in two days for the Mail

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On 19 September, the Daily Mail published the following apology to Osmond Kilkenny: On March 27, 2010, in an article headlined ‘Family a...
Tuesday, 18 October 2011

Daily Mail to pay 'substantial' damages to Lady Kristina Moore

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In March, the Press Gazette reported that Lady Kristina Moore, wife of Sir Roger Moore, was 'demanding damages' from the Daily Mai...

After three months, Mail corrects '£32 loaf of bread' story

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In today's 'Clarifications and corrections' column, the Mail finally admits that the claims it (and others) published in July a...
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Monday, 17 October 2011

The Mail's first corrections column

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The Daily Mail has followed in the footsteps of its Sunday sister paper and published its first 'Clarifications and corrections' co...
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Sunday, 16 October 2011

Churnalism to sell curry

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According to reports in several papers, Rochelle Peachey has just been crowned 'Britain's curry queen' after eating curry '...

'Corrections must be given more prominence'

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On 18 July 2011, Paul Dacre told a committee of MPs : The PCC already has the right to place a correction or adjudication in a paper. Whe...
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'The celebrity stuff drives the site'

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As this blog has pointed out once or twice before , MailOnline publisher Martin Clarke told the Press Gazette in 2009 : News is far more ...
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Friday, 14 October 2011

'A proper crack-down'

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The main editorial comment in today's Daily Star takes a stand against obesity: FAT'S SUCH A LETDOWN The smartest minds in Brita...
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Thursday, 13 October 2011

No EU 'ban' on blowing up balloons

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On Sunday, MailOnline reported: The story ran in Monday's papers under headlines such as 'Brussels bans toys' (Mail), ...
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