Nice driveway, there's just one problem... Red-faced OAP builds parking spot for her car days after council put up lamppost
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z2RwjJpArS





From the comments:

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Soppy anti-British, pro-crime, anti-education, pro-immigration, anti-family nonentity

I do like it when they get really worked up and start slinging round accusations of stupidity, thus conclusively demonstrating that it's actually the commenter who is stupid. e.g. -



And why does an expat get that worked up about it anyway, ffs?

Because this sums up all Mailites. No common sense just it's more than my time's worth to actually think, just believe the Mail's dripfeed they are totally immune to any common sense or logic . Parasites every one.

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Soppy anti-British, pro-crime, anti-education, pro-immigration, anti-family nonentity

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Sick Left-wing Zealot.

The Mail often plays on the inability of Mailites to read an entire story. Most just scan the headline, first 2 sentences and look at the pictures. They lack the ability to hold their concentration any longer than that. The Mail abuses their stupidity by placing all the lies and deceit where they know their brain dead readers will see it. The rebuttal of the entire story comes at the end and they know their average reader will never get there. This story seems to be a total piss take of their readers though and I'm sure the sub editors had a little bet to see if the readers would fail to understand the story even if the headline made the timeline of events very, very clear.

Caught on camera, the private postal staff who drop, throw and kick your online parcels
Emphasis mine there, as it refers to UK Mail, a private company who are not Royal Mail. And yet...

AKA the Paragraph 19 effect (I think the name was coined by Ben Goldacre, but it's widely used) where the story proceeds on a less-than-truthful course for 18 paragraphs, then reveals that it was all bollocks in the last para. Much used in newspapers because journos know that a certain sort of reader never reads to the end.

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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening.

That was me, that was!

The odd thing is that in both the lamppost story and the one about courier staff kicking parcels around, the facts for once aren't hidden in paragraph 19 but are there in the headline, and a hefty proportion of Mail commenters are still totally failing to get the point. It has to be the case that they barely glance at the story at all and block out anything that doesn't fit in with their prejudices before they get down to commenting. Clearly the Mail doesn't need to go to all the trouble of burying the facts, their loyal readers aren't going to take them in wherever they're placed in the report.

Have they changed the headline? They do that.

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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening.

This should be in the pointless story thread. Women builds drive then applies to council for access.

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"Affirmation sells a lot better than information. Who wants to hear the truth when they can hear that they’re right?"

It looks like it's about what the thread title says it is about to me. Mind you, I'm reading it on a Mac...

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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening.

Judging by the comments, no.