Is the Scottish Express even worse than the Mail?

[cdd]

I thought this was quite a good blog post in picking apart her contradictory and lie-filled 'apology':

http://tabloid-watch.blogspot.com/2009/ ... -shes.html

[Chie]

Talking of tabloids, here is today's Daily Express. It's a classic.

[Charlie Wells]

Talking of tabloids, here is today's Daily Express. It's a classic.

It seems to me it's partly a case of tabloids playing a game of Chinese whispers (also know as 'lazy journalism'), where they initially get their information from each other, instead of from the source. The Express was originally claiming it was a four week old puppy, though has since updated & corrected the article to say that the person had had the puppy for four weeks (it was a ten week old puppy). I'm surprised they didn't try lifting from the local rags News & Crier and Hunts Post provide more detail than the tabloids.

[Beep]

Either way it's reported, it's still a sickening and shocking story.

[Gavin Scott]

Yes, although its not a million miles from stories of "punks" tying fireworks to cats tails and setting them off when I was a youngster.

I guarantee I am less old than the editors of the Express, so why would they feel the need to say, "What's happening to our country?", as though thuggishness is a new thing?

Its nonsense. this type of behaviour is dreadful, but nothing new.

[Charlie Wells]

Yes, although its not a million miles from stories of "punks" tying fireworks to cats tails and setting them off when I was a youngster.

I guarantee I am less old than the editors of the Express, so why would they feel the need to say, "What's happening to our country?", as though thuggishness is a new thing?

Its nonsense. this type of behaviour is dreadful, but nothing new.

I imagine the editors are thinking of their stereotypical/target reader when they're rewriting the article that they (or a news agency) found in the local press. Others have since jumped on the 'outraged bandwagon', with the Sun offering a £2.5K reward.

It's only a matter of time before the national press come across the related Facebook group which at posting has 987 since being created yesterday. It would be amusing if (like some local residents) they mistook this article/site for being a real local news source. I suspect we'll hear more about this disgusting behaviour over the coming weeks, particularly if the culprits are found, and probably a few more satellite vans clogging the road now the national press has picked up on it (and not just one for Anglia News).

UPDATE @ 18:12: Just noticed this new article on the Daily Express: http://dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/13 ... ly-Express

JOY OF MY PUP FROM THE DAILY EXPRESS
THE girl whose puppy was stamped to death by a teenage thug spoke of her joy yesterday after being given a new dog – thanks to the Daily Express.

...now from reading this you would get the impression the Express provided the replacement puppy. However those who saw Anglia News' report on Wednesday would have been aware that she had already been given a replacement puppy, and reading further down reveals...

April’s grandmother Norma Peachey, 72, from Cambridge, originally paid for the new puppy with the £150 she had saved for a new pair of glasses.

But the Daily Express immediately put up the cash so Mrs Peachey could still have her varifocals.

...so essentially the paper refunded her grandmother, which whilst this is still a generous act it's makes for a conveniently misleading article. The paper also seems to think the reward being offered is merely £200 (coincidentally as per Hunts Post article), when the News & Crier states the reward is now £5000.

[GavBelfast]

Meanwhile, what's that stench emanating from the gutter on this side of the Irish Sea?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8336911.stm

[Charlie Wells]

In the latest twist it turns out the puppy died of natural causes...
http://www.huntspost.co.uk/content/hunt ... 3A44%3A677

[Gavin Scott]

In the latest twist it turns out the puppy died of natural causes...
http://www.huntspost.co.uk/content/hunt ... 3A44%3A677

Died of a "virus", "with no sign of injury" - never mind a size 10 shoeprint in its skull.

When asked how they felt about the police calling an end to the investigation, family friend Rodney Ellis said: “We are fuming. The police are making an innocent girl look like a liar. This will provoke a lot of hassle for April and the kids in the area will say she lied. April is not handling it very well and is really upset. She keeps asking ‘why doesn’t anyone believe me?”

Child with ADHD tells fibs for lots of attention?

Who'd have thunk it?

[Alexia]

The most shocking story of the day - the Sun highlighting that a soldier who died in Afghanistan has been mis-identified.



Forget Gordon Brown accidentally writing an n as an m, according to the Sun, the world of drive time radio has lost one of its leading lights to the Taliban.

[DVB Cornwall]

The Daily Mail has another 'fit' ... this time it's pop lyrics being attacked ....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... -iPod.html