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The Daily Mail Reporter is what Daily Mail writers hide behind when they push boundaries of taste or sheer pointlessness beyond the pale even for a journalist that writes for such a turgid shit-heap of a newspaper. However, sometimes even the Daily Mail Reporter has to be reined in for headlines that are beyond the pale. Take yesterday for example, I was browsing the Mail website to see if anything was worth bothering with when I came across the following headline:
'Young girl 'starved to death by Muslim mother and step-father after being held captive for months'. Naturally my first thought is typical Mail for including the prefix 'Muslim' before mother to highlight that not only did a parent do something as horrific as this, but shock horror they just happen to be a Daily Mail bogeyman: a Muslim.
After a bit more browsing I returned to the same headline to write about it, but it just happened that the headline had now been changed - the Muslim prefix had been removed. I
t was still cached in Google:
That was yesterday, today the Daily Mail Reporter article can no longer be found and is replaced by this headline: Jury in tears for little girl who looked like 'famine victim after being starved to death by mother and her boyfriend'. It is essentially a re-jigged version of the original (can still be found on this blog) minus the inflammatory headline which means that a human being is actually taking the credit for the new version - David Wilkes to be precise.
Makes you wonder who wrote the original headline and who felt that it needed to be changed. It also demonstrates that Daily Mail writers know when they are going to far with a headline because they are too chicken shit to put their name to it. Only when headlines are rewritten do Daily Mail writers have the guts to put their name to it. It also makes a mockery of the fact that the Daily Mail often mocks bloggers for hiding behind false names and being anonymous, as this is exactly what they do with the vast quantities of horrible shite being posted by The Daily Mail reporter.
Either way, the constant amendment of headlines, articles and facts on the Daily Mail website is a constant reminder that they it is not to be trusted. Lies and horrible distortions are simply swept into the Internet ether. |
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1184159/Devout-Christian-father-jailed-whipping-children-riding-crop.html
http://www.bayyinat.org.uk/terror.htm
Click on pic to see feed headline before it changed...
And, can you source any photos of this spineless fuckwit?
I complained to the PCC about a Daily Mail piece with a misleading headline and the Mail agreed to change the headline. The amended headline was not referred to on the Mail's website in any way that I could see** and (ridiculously) was still misleading. I responded to the PCC by complaining that the headline was still misleading and inaccurate, pointing out that the changing of the headline had totally missed the point I was making.
*I think you need to choose between 'they are' and 'it is' here (sorry - I'm afraid I am a terrible nitpicker).
**I think that this is sneaky - if I made a mistake and someone pointed it out I would correct the error and point out the change, not correct the error quietly and hope no-one noticed that I had cocked-up. Even when editing comments I've made on web forums, I note my corrections at the bottom. It's the only honest thing to do. I'd never make it as a journo on the Mail.