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Prefacing his words with the admission that this is a ‘first world rant’, Graeme Kelly writes:

Have an ‘obvious’ sign on my letterbox. If only my car’s clutch wasn’t broken and I needed fast Sky broadband to order a Taxi to Londis, Homestore and Home/Supervalue for a bit of shopping and maybe a Brazilian or Hollywood Wax with a Domino’s pizza afterwards while I studied for my Leaving Cert (again). Or straight in the Green bin (destination China).

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

(Hat tip: Oisin)