Daily Mail

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We can argue all day about whether the Daily Mail is a bigoted, bias grubby disgrace of a news paper or not. However the reason I would never
read it is more about its dreadful lack of accuracy, inability to use a spellchecker and zero fact checking. If they can't get a simple story about a TV show right, where all the facts are easily verifiable, what the hell are they feeding us when it comes to serious political and world news?

It's quit frightening to think how popular both their rag and their website is.



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Embarrassing really.

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The Daily Fail recently reported a stabbing in Milton Keynes and managed to get it seriously wrong there too.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2663589/Schoolboy-16-pool-blood-outside-school-stabbed-mass-brawl-way-GCSE-exam.html

In reality what happened was slightly less brazen.

A 16-year-old has been stabbed and left in a pool of blood after a mass brawl outside his school ahead of a GCSE exam.
....what pool of blood?  He had a non-serious stab wound which required a few stitches and then he was released.   There was no 'pool of blood', in fact he was standing and lifted his jumper to show where he had been stabbed when found by adults who attended.

...what 'mass brawl'?   He was walking alone and was approached by three local youths, one of whom had an altercation with him and stabbed him.   Four people does not a 'mass brawl' make.

...'outside his school'?   That means in the same housing estate and nearby, but not on school grounds.

Police are today questioning two teenagers arrested after the fight close to the gates of St Paul's Catholic School in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire yesterday.
....two?   You mean three teenagers.   And the teenager was walking to school from a different direction from the school gates which were some distance away.

The schoolboy was taken to the town's hospital and is said to be in a stable condition.
.....The schoolboy was so stable that he was released later that afternoon after a few stitches, well before the report was published by the Daily Mail.  No serious injury, nothing to remain in hospital for, despite being referred to as 'stable'.

Detectives held two teenagers at the scene, and all are still be questioned today.
.....that'll be 'two' as in 'three' which is the actual number held by police for questioning.

Students have admitted it is 'scary'  a classmate has been stabbed 'yards away from your school'.
.....the phrasing tells you that the reporter asked a student "would you be scared if someone rushed at you with a humongous knife and attacked you with it just yards from your school", which is actually not what happened.  In addition, in this case the 'yards' would be several hundred yards from the school which is not quite the same degree of proximity.  

The reporter never contacted the school and did not ask for permission to speak to pupils.  Despite there being large numbers of teachers and police on duty at the end of the school day when pupils left, nobody saw a reporter talking to children, so the 'comment' might even have been made up.  Certainly they did not send a photographer on the day as they ripped an old image from Google to go along with their 'fictional prose'.

The attack happened on Thursday at around 12.30pm as the victim arrived at school, which was rated as outstanding by Ofsted in 2008, for an exam.
.....that'll be '2008' as in 'did not read the school website' which shows the most recent inspection reports from 2013 & 2014'.

Those in custody were not pupils at the comprehensive, which has nearly 1,200 pupils.
...that'll be '1200' as in '1800' pupils, but that's pretty close for the Daily Fail.

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Blimey, shocking really!

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Headlines replaced by readers comments, quite amusing.
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