The Daily Fail, caught in a complete fabrication

[Puppycow]

Vengeful teeth-pulling dentist story deemed a hoax (http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/vengeful-teeth-pulling-dentist-story-deemed-hoax-152703370.html)

The original story was traced back to Britain's Daily Mail newspaper. The writer Simon Tomlinson, says he does not know where the story originated, despite its bearing his byline. "I've drawn a bit of a blank," he told MSNBC.

[OnlyTellsTruths]

Wait, I thought the Daily Mail had provable fabrications almost every issue....

[Sword_Of_Truth]

If JREFers weren't posting links to Daily Mail, I'd have no clue what was happening in the lives of the girls of "The Only Way is Essex".

[Beerina]

The Daily Lots of News Organizations Fail

[JeanFromBNA]

If JREFers weren't posting links to Daily Mail, I'd have no clue what was happening in the lives of the girls of "The Only Way is Essex".

Or Leann Rimes. What is the DM's fascination with her? She gets no press in Nashville.

OTOH, I see that the Kardashians are your problem now . . .

[crimresearch]

And the rest of the media is 'shocked, simply shocked' that anyone would have fallen for that obviously fake story, much less repeated it around the world in their own publications just the day before.

:rolleyes:

[Lithrael]

Daily Mail made me pretty mad a few months ago when they ran this stupid jellyfish lamp story that was repeated all over the freaking internet, giving a ton of free publicity to a guy whose sales pitch was full of lies and whose BBB listing is full of consumer complaints.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2113917/Glow-dark-lamps-dead-JELLYFISH.html

[BowlOfRed]

Vengeful teeth-pulling dentist story deemed a hoax (http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/vengeful-teeth-pulling-dentist-story-deemed-hoax-152703370.html)

I love that the "Explore Related Content" links from that story mainly consist of repeats of the original story in other papers....

[Puppycow]

Wait, I thought the Daily Mail had provable fabrications almost every issue....

Maybe they do. I don't have time to read every one, much less check them.

This one is special though because the entire article was made up out of whole cloth.

[baron]

A friend pointed out that story. The conversation went something like this.

"Apparently this guy had all his teeth pulled out in revenge by his ex, who was a dentist."
"All of them? How many did he have?"
"It doesn't say."
"Why did he go to his ex for dentistry?"
"I don't know."
"Was she arrested?"
"Erm... it doesn't say that either."
"It didn't happen, did it?"
"I guess not."

[Staffsknot]

Does anyone expect less from the Daily Mail?

[TubbaBlubba]

So the Daily Mail published yet another article.

[Damien Evans]

Maybe they do. I don't have time to read every one, much less check them.

This one is special though because the entire article was made up out of whole cloth.

Again, how is that different from any other daily fail article?

[Puppycow]

Again, how is that different from any other daily fail article?

Are you claiming that all Daily Mail articles are fabrications?

If so, then the burden of proof falls on you.

I'm just making a claim about this particular article.

[Rat]

Are you claiming that all Daily Mail articles are fabrications?

If so, then the burden of proof falls on you.

I'm just making a claim about this particular article.
No, the Fail is not the Weekly World News, so not everything in there is completely, from-whole-cloth fabrication. But that kind of complete non-story is not particularly rare in there.

[Damien Evans]

Are you claiming that all Daily Mail articles are fabrications?

If so, then the burden of proof falls on you.

I'm just making a claim about this particular article.

Maybe not all, but a large percentage. There's a good reason people call them the Daily Fail.

[Sword_Of_Truth]

Or Leann Rimes. What is the DM's fascination with her? She gets no press in Nashville.

OTOH, I see that the Kardashians are your problem now . . .

Now they're reporting that Holly Willoughby has a great rack (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2143520/The-Voice-UK-Holly-Willoughby-shows-enviable-cleavage-revealing-dress.html).

You just don't find this level of hard-hitting journalism from MSNBC, FOX, New York Times, etc...

[angrysoba]

Are you claiming that all Daily Mail articles are fabrications?

If so, then the burden of proof falls on you.

I'm just making a claim about this particular article.

I think one of the hallmarks of the Daily Mail is a big sensationalist headline which the article fails to support.

[MarkCorrigan]

I think one of the hallmarks of the Daily Mail is a big sensationalist headline which the article fails to support.

Exactly.

I recall a hilarious one recently where they claimed the white cliffs of Dover were being sold to the French.

It turned out that the Dover port authority was selling some buildings to a French company, but this didn't stop them having massive pictures of a spitfire and the cliffs themselves.

The Fail is pathetic.

[Puppycow]

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that at least parts of this article aren't true:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2143513/Dead-man-wakes-coffin-FUNERAL.html

Just last month a 95-year-old Chinese woman climbed out of her own coffin six days after she was thought to have died following a fall.

Li Xiufeng was found motionless and not breathing in bed by a neighbour two weeks after tripping and suffering a head injury at her home in Beiliu, Guangxi Province.

When the neighbour who found her could not wake the pensioner up, they feared the worst and thought the elderly woman had passed away.

She was placed in a coffin which was kept in her house unsealed under Chinese tradition for friends and relatives to pay respects.

But the day before the funeral, neighbours found an empty coffin, and later discovered the 95-year-old, who had since woken up, in her kitchen cooking.

[P.J. Denyer]

I think one of the hallmarks of the Daily Mail is a big sensationalist headline which the article fails to support.


Like the 'BBC Bans BC\AD dates because they hate the baby Jesus' run of articles.........

[Matthew Best]

Now they're reporting that Holly Willoughby has a great rack (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2143520/The-Voice-UK-Holly-Willoughby-shows-enviable-cleavage-revealing-dress.html).

OK, that one is actually true.

[Sword_Of_Truth]

OK, that one is actually true.

I'm not sure. I need more solid evidence. Something I can hold in my hands.