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Is the Daily Star a “rogue newspaper”?

April 8, 2008 – 6:22 pm

Roy Greenslade of The Guardian thinks so, and he made a three-part argument earlier today:
Case one: yesterday it apologised in the high court to the Italian footballer Marco Materazzi who was infamously headbutted in the chest by Zinedine Zidane in the 2006 world cup final. The paper falsely claimed that the attack was prompted by [...]

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Daily Express, Daily Star issue front page apologies, pay damages

March 19, 2008 – 9:00 pm

Today was a historic day for newspaper apologies. A sad, shameful, embarrassingly historic day.
Two UK papers controlled by the same owner (Express Newspapers) issued front page apologies to a British couple, Kate and Gerry McCann. The apologies will be repeated in the related Sunday editions of both papers, the Sunday Express and Daily Star Sunday*.
In [...]

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Sorry for saying you fondled your daughter

January 21, 2008 – 8:00 am

OUR article last Tuesday headed “It’s Sven Giggle Eriksson” pictured Mr Eriksson in a hotel restaurant with a young lady.
We wrongly assumed that the lady was an admirer and suggested that he was fondling her.
In fact the lady was Lina, Mr Eriksson’s daughter, with whom he was having a normal fatherly embrace.
We apologise to Mr [...]

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AP explains Paris Hilton and the drunken elephants

November 20, 2007 – 8:00 am

Last week the Associated Press ran with a story about Paris Hilton raising awareness about the plight of drunken elephants. Though many, including the AP, are willing to believe anything when it comes to Paris Hilton, this particular tale was completely false. (Our previous post with the original story and correction is here.)
AP had picked [...]

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Apology

September 24, 2007 – 8:00 am

IN our article “He made my hair fall out” on 13 October, 2006, reporting the divorce of Dan Hipgrave and Gail Porter, we said that Mr Hipgrave’s unreasonable behaviour during the marriage had caused Miss Porter’s stress-related alopecia and had made hair fall out.
We would like to make it clear that Mr Hipgrave’s behaviour did [...]

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