Corrections and clarifications!

Carlos The Badger · **Posted:** Mon Oct 24, 2011 8:16 pm

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The average issue of the Daily Mail contains around 80,000 words - the equivalent of a paperback book - most of which are written on the day under tremendous pressure of deadlines. Huge efforts are made to ensure our journalism meets the highest possible standards of accuracy but it is inevitable that mistakes do occur. This new column provides an opportunity to correct those errors quickly and prominently.

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Hmmm?!

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Mon Oct 24, 2011 8:20 pm

That "we deal with X thousand people" excuse doesn't seem to be allowed to the NHS.

Messianic Trees · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 pm **Posts:** 2892

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Huge efforts are made to ensure our journalism meets the highest possible standards of accuracy

Since when?

Arnold · **Posted:** Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:55 pm

I think that "Amanda Knox" and "Pearl Harbour" are being blocked by the filter. Two posts of mine haven't appeared.

daveinbrum · **Posted:** Mon Oct 31, 2011 7:09 pm

Two front-page stories corrected already.... the page 2 column doesn't quite have the same impact though:

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=48136&c=1

Carlos The Badger · **Posted:** Mon Oct 31, 2011 7:26 pm

daveinbrum wrote:

Two front-page stories corrected already.... the page 2 column doesn't quite have the same impact though:

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=48136&c=1

*Sigh* Until the bastards are made to print apologies or corrections on the same page and same point size with any pictures they might have used then it's just a waste of time. The PCC makes me sick.

Catkins · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 4:22 pm **Posts:** 120

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*Sigh* Until the bastards are made to print apologies or corrections on the same page and same point size with any pictures they might have used then it's just a waste of time. The PCC makes me sick.

Same here, but at least Neil Morrissey has the financial clout to take it further.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greensl ... l-medialaw

MacGuffin · **Joined:** Thu Oct 08, 2009 11:07 pm **Posts:** 427

Handy blog set up by Dave Cross to keep all those corrections in one place (with links back to original where possible):

http://mail.fellowtravellers.org.uk/

smod · **Posted:** Tue Nov 01, 2011 5:10 pm

http://fullfact.org/blog/daily_mail_sch ... ssion-3081

Carlos The Badger · **Posted:** Tue Nov 01, 2011 6:29 pm

Clarifications and corrections
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 11:25 PM on 31st October 2011

I think I need to complain about this correction.

Quote:

A joke in Andrew Pierce's column yesterday suggested that Westminster should follow horse racing by banning use of the whip. In fact the British Horseracing Authority has not banned the whip but reduced the number of times a jockey can use it in a race.

I don't think it was a joke. I don't think Pierce has ever told a joke. I don't think Pierce knows what a joke is. I don't think it resembled anything close to humour.
That's inaccurate reporting that is.

mattomac · **Posted:** Tue Nov 08, 2011 1:27 pm

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/steve ... -winterval

Oh yes

daveinbrum · **Posted:** Tue Nov 08, 2011 2:08 pm

mattomac wrote:

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/steven-baxter/2011/11/christmas-mail-winterval

Oh yes

Just saw that on Press Gazette. Great news, if several years too late...

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sun Nov 27, 2011 11:02 am

From B3TA.

Abernathy · **Posted:** Sun Nov 27, 2011 7:49 pm

Funny cos it's true.

Big-Iain · **Joined:** Tue Apr 12, 2011 10:49 pm **Posts:** 97

After the PCC publish their adjudication on the Amanda Knox Guilty screwup, the Mail Website actually gives reasonable prominence to the story.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/article ... -Knox.html

No comments required....surprise, surprise.

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