Unbelievable Error in the "Daily Express"

The Daily Wail is absolute gospel round here. Never known to be wrong !!!!!

Just think, a great mass of the British public get their ideas about how to live and think from the media.

Graham

It might be possible to get through to the Express on [email]expressletters@express.co.uk[/email]

I’ve sent them a quick email asking for a correction.

It is a newspaper, what do you expect?

The really worrying thing is: If they get this story SO wrong, what other stories (perhaps of more importance to everyday life) also contain similar errors of this magnitude?

You took the words right off my keyboard, Tony.

A link-

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/198378/Dad-deserves-this-memorial

Says at the bottom that “Have Your Say” is unavailable for this story. Pity; I can think of something I’d like to say…

It is a newspaper, what do you expect?

The really worrying thing is: If they get this story SO wrong, what other stories (perhaps of more importance to everyday life) also contain similar errors of this magnitude?

You wouldn’t really want to know, honest! The current shower of nonsense over future Defence cuts is a case in point. They aren’t all like this but the Express in particular is a bit of a “waif and stray” in the industry and it doesn’t have a niche market – so I was told a little while back by a very experienced journo who was in the broadsheet and tabloid business. The old adage “Telephones tell lies and newspapers print ’em” is somwhat harsh but there is just a grain of truth in there. Rebuttal and factual briefings are the main weapons to combat this sort of ignorance.

I particularly like, in the screenshot, the correction: “…until September 1941, a year after the war had ended”… Really ? In what kind of parallel universe to they live ?

Not just the Scottish edition, it was in my copy down here too. It was used to illustrate an article having a pop at the Germans for one of their ministers objecting to a Bomber Command memorial.

I’ve still got a copy of the Express weekend magazine from years ago with an Auschwitz feature in it, written by a chap who stated that it was easier for the Nazis to build death camps in Poland because the Poles sympathised with them. Imagine telling that to the families of the Polish fighters who perished defending us from the Third Reich…..

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story thats the Journalist code isnt it?

This is one of the main reasons I don’t waste my money on newspapers, i.e. every story I have ever seen published in a newspaper that I KNEW the facts about has been utter tripe, pure fiction or embellished to the extent that it no longer bears any relation to actual events.

Ergo, every other published story is very likely to be utter tripe, pure fiction etc. as well.

It is a newspaper, what do you expect?

The really worrying thing is: If they get this story SO wrong, what other stories (perhaps of more importance to everyday life) also contain similar errors of this magnitude?

Up there with this screenshot from the mail site when they were having a pop at the beeb for being inaccurate