Following yesterday’s acquittal of Amanda Knox, the Mail ( which had pre-prepared an ‘A’ and ‘B’ news story depending on the outcome) published the wrong one – thereby exposing the soiled knickers of speculative journalism.
The headline referring to Amanda Knox’s ‘stunned’ look at having her appeal rejected (in the parallel universe of the B-article) is one thing. Slightly more uncomfortable are later descriptions of ‘events’ and ‘quotes’ from Knox and Sollecito which clearly never happened, as the appeal was successful.
MailOnline makes up events, quotes from Perugia (Tabloid Watch)
Screengrab of the entire ‘B’-article here
Thats disgracefull –
“Nick Pisa” obviously, his porn star name…
Hilarious comment on this story on Tabloid Watch, where someone sent the following letter to the editor of the Mail Online:
Editor,
Since the Daily Mail Online has obviously given up reporting the news in favour of inventing fantasist fiction of the alternate reality kind (Guilty: Amanda Knox looks stunned as appeal against murder conviction is rejected- Nick Pisa 03/10/11) I wonder if your hacks could whip up a little piece about how the recession is over and it’s smooth financial sailing ahead now that all the nasty banking and investment executives are safely tucked up behind bars? It’s bollocks but it might cheer us all up.
And we all know how much the DM loves to cheer everybody up and is not at all a fear-mongering, frenzy-inducing, scapegoat-creating pile of budgie cage liner.
Murdoch must be soooo jealous.
Regards,
Sam Gunne
*LOL*
staying classy – http://www.asylum.co.uk/2011/09/09/daily-mail-samantha-cameron-gwyneth-paltrow-photoshop-fake/
I love it when baddies get busted- it brings a certain symmetry and simplicity to an otherwise complicated and uneven world.
Par for the course for Dirty Dacre’s Mail.
And who did Newstalk ring to comment on the trial this lunchtime, saying he’s been following the case ‘forensically’ since the start?
The Daily Fail strikes again.
I haven’t been this shocked since Jan Moir wrote that piece about the late Stephen Gately……
I laughed at that.
its ot because gately was gay it was because he hada gay lifestyle which among other things involved being gay, we’re not homophobic we swear.
Unbelievable, just like the rest of the Daily Mail
The Daily Mail’s editorial direction is to publish ‘stories’ to invoke rage in the readership. Alf Garnett types….. Hearts wizened to that of a prune. Perma-scowl faces.
Don’t get suckered in.
The Daily Mash will calm you down.
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/international/knox-to-be-trained-in-how-not-to-look-shifty-201110044377/
I can’t believe Irish people buy the Daily Mail. They called us every insult under the sun in the 1980s. They painted every Irish person as scum and a terrorist. They made the lives of Irish people in England (including my siblings) very difficult at times with fear mongering and racist slurs.
They’re a bucket of shit and any journalist who works for them should be ashamed of themselves.
….eh Im confused… did she get away with or not?
Yes
What? Murder?
If you go into the link for the article,there’s a photo of the media in the court with the text that’s supposed to say media scrum,but actually a typo describes the Mail perfectly…..media scum.