User:Jenova20/Criticism of the Daily Mail and Mail Online

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Uncategorised Resources

 * "Stephen Fry compares Daily Mail Editor Paul Dacre to Mussolini in Sochi argument"2
 * Daily Fail/Heil names
 * The Mail removed an image from a story which some people mistook for a cock (in a piece about a dominatrix) - This is a Fail more than anything else...
 * Daily Mail lobbies for default opt-out internet filters. The government refuses, Daily Mail declares it a victory for their campaign...Even though default filters would likely block their site for the images commonly showed on the rightSource 2
 * "Abortion hope after "gay genes" find" headline (page 272)

"The MailOnline occasionally publishes stories containing illegal images of underage children. While these images are usually removed after some time, allegations have been made of a close relationship between the MailOnline and the police forces by ."

Fact checking failures or misleading articles

 * Daily Mail runs with iPhone recall story from Steve Jobs Twitter account clearly marked as a fake
 * " ten seconds of Googling appears to be beyond the scope of BBC or Daily Mail photo researchers"
 * "the Mail Online published incredibly unflattering photos of me all over the internet." - Despite them being of the wrong person...


 * In April 2012, MailOnline published an article about a dentist who pulled out her ex-boyfriend's teeth, which was exposed as a hoax by MSNBC.com.

In October 2011, MailOnline and several other newspapers mistakenly published articles on Amanda Knox's trial, reporting that the appeal led to upholding the original guilty verdict, which was incorrect; the verdict was overturned. The mistakenly published article included fabricated quotes and falsely claimed she was put on suicide watch.

In June 2010, The Guardian reported that MailOnline had published an inaccurate story about an iPhone 4 recall, based on a Twitter message by a Steve Jobs impersonator.

Ignoring copyright

 * There's a lot about the Daily Mail nicking images...
 * Daily Mail getting a bill 3-times larger than usual for copying copyrighted images without permission
 * Daily Mail sued for large scale copyright infringement by Mavrix ImagesSource 2
 * "The Daily Mail knowingly and commercially used my photos despite my denying them permission"
 * "The Daily Mail's website is notorious for grabbing images found on the internet and using them without permission - even incorrectly attributing them, eg, "© Twitter""
 * How the Daily Mail handles CC licenses

In March 2012, Poynter published an article describing multiple examples of MailOnline using material from other news websites without credit.


 * Mail Online rarely embeds links to stories. Writers from both the Washington Post and Gawker have recently criticized Mail Online for this practice. Danny Gold, of Gawker, wrote that Mail Online goes “out of their way to fuck over journalists and they reap the benefits by becoming the most highly trafficked newspaper on the Internet.”

Wrongful/unfounded accusations

 * Daily Mail claims Google streetview is revealling women's refuge locations - Refuge, the UK-based domestic violence charity says no, they're not
 * Amusingly the same article has an apology to Google for accusing them of "selling individual users data to third parties", What better way to apologise for making stuff up than in another article where they do the same against the same company
 * Daily Mail site infection blamed on ad server - actually from Daily Mail publisher's computer

Misrepresentation of evidence/facts

 * Countless cancer scare stories?
 * "Daily Mail cites video game as proof of terrorist doomsday plot"
 * "Daily Mail prints article even after scientist says it "misrepresents" his work"
 * Daily Mail makes unfounded claims on crime statistics and gets caught
 * Daily Mail makes claims David Cameron regretted forcing the gay marriage bill through before later admitting it was made up

Naziism links

 * Ed Miliband saga
 * Huff post

Leveson Inquiry

 * Daily Mail picture editor grilled at Leveson Inquiry
 * "The Mail on Sunday carried on using a private investigator after he was charged with using illegal means to obtain information, the newspaper’s editor has told the Leveson Inquiry".
 * Trans issues and reputation of homophobia