[Big-Iain]

(Couldn't find a similar pre-existing thread on these lines. If there is one...damn.)

What about a thread about all the quirky, life affirming stories that were so good first time, that the Daily Mail decides to run them again. Not stories with a common theme (eg "New - Pictures of The Saturdays in short dresses"), but the same basic story with some different words/pictures.

For example, thirty years ago, bloke wanders around taking pictures of candid people. If his name was Mr Google, the angry mob would be collecting pitchforks. But it isn't. Chris Porsz decides to recreate the pictures with same people, 30 years later. Neat idea, but not unique.

26th May 2010, DM runs story.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... snaps.html

18th May 2011, DM runs story. Many pics look familiar.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... s-ago.html

Still repeating a story almost exactly a year after first publication...could just be a one-off.
Except, it isn't.
http://tabloid-watch.blogspot.com/2010/ ... sm-oh.html

[Big-Iain]

Shipwreck Salvage company find UFO-like something on sonar.
Such as trivial story, no-one will spot if DM runs it twice. Will they ?

2nd August 2011
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... eabed.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

29th January 2012
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... c-Sea.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Big Arnold]

30/1/2012
How can this boy of four be labelled clinically obese?

19/12/2011
'You're bordering on obese': What active 7-year-old girl was told by NHS weigh scheme

[Timbo]

30/1/2012
How can this boy of four be labelled clinically obese?

19/12/2011
'You're bordering on obese': What active 7-year-old girl was told by NHS weigh scheme

Oh fucking hell - there are dozens of these on the sadface thread. It's always the same shit, and the parent invariably gives the child a massive complex by making a huge issue out of it and forcing the child to pose for a photographer.

[Big-Iain]

25th Feb 2009 - Lets laugh at people with funny names. Quote from Stan Still
'When I was in the RAF my commanding officer used to shout, "Stan Still, get a move on" and roll about laughing. It got hugely boring after a while.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... itain.html

27th Feb 2010 - Lets laugh at people with funny names. Quote from Stan Still
'When I was in the RAF my commanding officer used to shout "Stan Still, get a move on!" and roll about laughing. It got hugely boring after a while.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -Bull.html

Feb 2011 - shocking. No Stan Still story !!

1st Feb 2012 - BBC credits person with made-up name. Lets laugh at people with funny names. Quote from Stan Still
'When I was in the RAF, my commanding officer used to shout: "Stan Still, get a move on" and roll about laughing,'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -Lear.html

For once I agree with the interview. It got hugely boring after a while.

(Tempted to crosspost to the Daily Mail Hypocrisy thread, but...meh ! )

[Tubby Isaacs]

Hi Iain.

Post more often! Are you sure they forgot to run the story in 2011?

[Silkyman]

I used to work with a Theresa Green

[Big-Iain]

Story (and I use the term loosely) from today's (3rd September 2012) website

New pictures surface: Victoria's Secret catalogue from 1979

Notice that. "New". Must be a new definition of "new", as back on 25th April 2012, they had :

What Victoria’s Secret models looked like in 1979

Same "vintage" photos, different byline and text.

Lazy "Journalism". Especially as the website they plunder posted the pics from posted them back in June 2011.

[Big Arnold]

Shipwreck Salvage company find UFO-like something on sonar.
Such as trivial story, no-one will spot if DM runs it twice. Will they ?

2nd August 2011
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... eabed.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

29th January 2012
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... c-Sea.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

1st June 2012

Will divers finally get to the bottom of the Baltic Sea 'UFO' mystery? Team heads into the abyss to discover the origins of strange, 400-metre 'Millennium Falcon' object

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... bject.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
As usual the answer to a DM headline question is "No". Unusually the DM admit it.
3rd September 2012

So was the 'Baltic Sea UFO' an alien saucer or an underwater Nazi base? No - it 'is just rocks', claim debunkers

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... z25RRewVHI" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Not that some Mailites believe in underwater rocks.

I don't understand why "people" are so afraid to tell the public the truth. There's so much lying in this world at the top it makes me sick.
- Steve, Birmingham, UK, 3/9/2012 12:22
Click to rate Rating 39

As usuall we will never get to know the real truth!
- Alison, Netherlands, 3/9/2012 14:00
Click to rate Rating 30

in other words this is now in the hands of the government- classified. surely they could have came up with a better cover up- rock doesn't cut it for me unfortunetly.
- wilfred, uk, 3/9/2012 13:10
Click to rate Rating 25

[Big-Iain]

...and more.
6th September 2012
Copycat titles and packaging

looks suspiciously like
25th June 2012
'knock-off' movies

But then again, the Daily Mail does promote Richard Littlejohn as "a journalist", so obviously they know about misrepresentation.

[Big Arnold]

24th July 2012
What Harry told Sally was right: Why a man can never be just friends with a woman... attraction gets in the way
10th Sept 2012
What Harry told Sally was right all along: Men and women CAN'T be just good friends

[Big-Iain]

Good spot, Arnold.

So, if form holds, in 3 days we should have an "article" by the improbably names Cosmo Landesman.
27th July 2012
Sorry, ladies - but we men can NEVER just be your friends: As scientific research confirms what he learnt the hard way

[Daley Mayle]

Experiencing déjà vu now 'at epidemic levels'

DAILY MAIL REPORTER

Déjà vu, from French, literally "already seen", is the phenomenon of having the strong sensation that an event or experience currently being experienced has been experienced in the past and scientists have identified a 57% increase in those spooky moments amongst Daily Mail readers...

[Big-Iain]

27th July 2012
The Door to Hell. Take a look inside a giant hole in the desert which has been on fire for more than 40 YEARS

12th Sept 2012
The giant desert crater known as The Door to Hell which has been on fire for more than FORTY YEARS

Same pictures. Same phenomenon. Virtually the same text. SAME FERKING AUTHOR!

Credit where its due : all of the Top Comments have spotted this recycling, and are calling the DM on it. eg "Slow day? You did this same article in July. What next, John Lennon's been shot?"

[Daley Mayle]

Paedotastic!

Outrage in 2006 as newspaper rages against the sexualisation of young girls as that trollop La Hurley launches a range of bikini swimwear for young girls.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar ... ldren.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


More outrage as newspaper rages against the sexualisation of young girls as they repeat the story about La Hurley's range of bikini swimwear for young girls but this time with lots of of material for the kiddy fiddlers.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... range.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;