(not satire – it’s the Daily Mail!)
On the 31st of December last year the Mail gave us this article:
But then – after just about every bit of information in the article turned out to be wrong – the newspaper went to great lengths to deny they had misled readers. The Mail’s tortured explanations by its Corrections Editor Hilary Kingsley can be seen in full here:
Buses, planes, Bulgarians, Romanians and The Daily Mail
But today – surprise surprise – we get this ‘clarification‘ tucked away where the Mail is really really really hoping nobody will notice:
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They could have said all that in just two words:
WE LIED.
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For the sake of the Daily Mail’s journalistic reputation, best keep this information to ourselves:
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