The Daily Star admits to making no attempt to check accuracy

[kidshuffle]

I thought lack of accuracy was the foundation for their journalism, but apparently not!
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/14 ... n-apology/

[hackman]

i wonder how easy it would be to get the daily star sued for slander by feeding them some bullshit story and watch them run riot with it....

[nicenice]

I bet Rockstar threatened them with a lawsuit.

[Wreckognize]

I like how the comments are disabled for that story.

[oli90]

I like how the comments are disabled for that story.

I noticed that on the Daily Mail website. Whenever there's a story that's racially sensitive they disable comments. Probably because they know what their readers are really like.

[ThomasEll]

Seeing as they took down the original article

http://www.mcvuk.com/static/images/asse ... thbury.jpg

[the acid never lies]

I like it when parasites are made to look foolish.

[Kaneda]

Seeing as they took down the original article

http://www.mcvuk.com/static/images/asse ... thbury.jpg

This is hilarious!
Though in trash journalism's defense, the National Enquirer has won pulitzers for investigative journalism in the past...

[magma]

Brilliant. I saw the article come up and get withdrawn... makes you wonder though, I bet RockStar have some serious lawyer potential. Red Dead Redemption is probably a bigger money spinner than a year of Daily Star's readership just in this country.... would be hilarious to see them really get hung out to dry. Rockstar aren't exactly friendly to the tabloid press in their games..!

[HamCrescendo]

WHAY I GOT A CHICKEN AND SOME FISHING RODS DIVVNT YA NA

[firky]

You all need to read this woman's books / findings:

http://heatherbrooke.org/

Investigation journalism – Norwegian style
March 23rd, 2010
I attended the Norwegian SKUP conference of investigative journalists this past weekend. There were about 560 journalists from all across Norway in attendance plus a handful of international speakers including myself, the Guardian’s investigations editor David Leigh and one of the founders of Wikileaks: Julian Assange.

I was blown away by the sheer number of journalists in attendance as I’ve never been to a UK conference with anything close to this number of journalists. In Scandinavia the tradition is for reporters to cooperate and share knowledge. In the UK we are still getting over the hyper-competition of Fleet Street where journalists tend to view each other with suspicion and the instinct is keep knowledge to oneself. While this has some advantages, in the current climate it makes more sense for journalists to band together, particularly when it comes to common interests such as libel, freedom of expression and freedom of information.

Most of the talks were in Norwegian so I can’t offer much enlightenment on them though I did hear about some amazing journalists: one of whom was exposing his ninth miscarriage of justice, another wrote a book about Norway’s most famous bank robbery.

The speaker who impressed me the most was Julian Assange. I tweeted quite a lot from his session (@newsbrooke) but one thing he said struck me: that despite releasing primary source material to anyone and everyone via wikileaks – the biggest scandals didn’t become stories until written about by an experienced journalist at a mainstream newspaper. He cited the release of a leaked US military manual in relation to Abu Ghraib/Guantanamo abuses along with a few others. An army of citizen journalists didn’t know what to do with this and passed it by. It was only the experienced reporters at big media institutions who wrote about it and made it a story.

It seems there is hope for the traditional Press after all.

[fitz]

Fucking tabloid scum.......sickens my shit, TBQH

[noam]

i Lol'd... then i read the apology and Lol'd even more

[DecCurran]

usually some crackin' tits on page 3 tho...

who gives a fuck about accuracy when you got crackin' tits