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The Morien Jones apologies will seemingly never end

November 2, 2007 – 8:00 am

We have, since August of last year, been cataloging the apologies offered to Morien Jones, a UK man who was wrongly and hurtfully portrayed in a series of media reports back in 2006.
Jones has managed to extract apologies from a large number of UK media outlets, and they keep coming. We salute his dedication to [...]

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The Morien Jones apologies, cont. again

April 27, 2007 – 8:00 am

The apologies keep rolling in for Morien Jones. This story goes back to last summer. Some newspapers continue to get the story wrong, while others are just getting around to correcting their reports from last year. Below are the latest installments. Read the previous ones by starting here.
FURTHER to our article on May 26 2006 [...]

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The Morien Jones apologies, cont. again

March 16, 2007 – 8:00 am

It’s been a while since we saw an apology for Morien Jones, a UK man who was the subject of a string of hurtful and incorrect articles in the British press. Well, thanks to a recent court decision related to the story, we have two more to add. Read the others and get the background [...]

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The Morien Jones apologies, continued

September 15, 2006 – 8:01 am

We’ve been cataloging the apologies offered to Morien Jones by UK newspapers (read one of the apologies for some background), and now there are a few more to add to the pile. Actually, a lot more. We can’t recall another recent UK story that caused so many apologies. Read the previous apology from the Yorkshire [...]

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The naked and the very sorry — again

September 4, 2006 – 8:00 am

The Yorkshire Post made a similar error — and apology and payment — a couple of weeks ago.
In an article on 26 May 2006 (”I’m looking forward to a naked summer”) about the unsuccessful prosecution of Lynett Burgess for indecent exposure, we reported that her neighbour, Morien Jones, had rushed to video her sunbathing naked [...]

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Nudes, prudes, and apologies

August 14, 2006 – 8:00 am

A feature article (Yorkshire Post, 1 June 2006 and on www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk) entitled “Nudes and Prudes - time we face the naked truth” reported that Morien Jones had fimed his neighbour, Lynette Burgess, while she was sunbathing naked in her back garden, and that he had reported this to the police, resulting in Ms Burgess’ prosecution [...]

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