Category Archives: Corrections

A lack of inquiry

Posted on August 10, 2010 by

Despite what it might look like, I don’t just read newspaper websites to pick up stories to sneer at on here. I also read them for, well, news. But it really annoys me when I read a story, take it … Continue reading →

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Another libel payout for the Mail

Posted on July 29, 2010 by

Back in April, the Mail published an apology to a Muslim academic they’d smeared as grooming a terrorist: On 15 January a headline on our report said that Reza Pankhurst, a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir who teaches at the LSE, … Continue reading →

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Sun and Mail lose libel case

Posted on July 29, 2010 by

The Mail and the Sun today lost a libel case and paid a reported total of £80,000 in damages to a Tamil hunger-striker Parameswaran Subramanyam they’d claimed was secretly eating Big Macs. Both newspapers have now published apologies accepting that … Continue reading →

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One article – two apologies

Posted on July 9, 2010 by

It’s been pointed out to me that the ‘apology’ for calling the East London Mosque ‘radical’ was in fact a right of reply. That’s correct – the Express did not apologise for that, but included the ELM’s position that it … Continue reading →

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