As the Mail Online makes yet another balls-up, The Steeple Times suggests that Lord Rothermere hire a decent copy checker
As was the case with the amazing yet surprisingly true story of The Man Who Never Was and his affair with the woman who ultimately became the inspiration for Ian Fleming’s Bond character Miss Moneypenny, last night the Mail Online created a similarly ridiculous work of fiction by mistakenly changing a few letters in one of their main news items.
In the first edition of a header for an article about a star who’d taken to the dating app Bumble to “seek someone who isn’t uptight,” the paper falsely suggested that the somewhat drippy adventurer turned television presenter Ben Fogle was divorcing a woman (a singer and ‘Hottest Female 2009’ named Una Healey) who isn’t even his wife and having an affair with another (an until now unknown PR woman named Becky Milne) he’s unlikely never met also. Instead, they meant to reference a somewhat vain rugby player who likes to get his kit off for photoshoots called Ben Foden but somehow got the surnames mixed up.
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Though errors happen at all levels, the Daily Mail – a paper that is part of a company with a revenue of nearly £2 billion annually and a vast staff of around 10,000 globally – could surely do better. This was not a story that was run on Page 54 in the graveyard section, but one that they have plastered as headline news and run as story number one online also.
We may well be living in the era of hashtags and fake news and are certainly currently in August’s ‘silly season’, but come on Lord Rothermere – employ yourself a bloody half-decent copy checker.
Pictured top: Rugby player Ben Foden (left) supposedly embarked on a relationship with PR woman Becky Milne (second left) whilst still married to ‘The Saturdays’ singer Una Healy (second from right); television presenter Ben Fogle was mistakenly brought into the mix by a rather ineffectual ‘Mail Online’ copy checker.
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This drivel is in a paper that supported the Black Shirts and engaged with the Nazis. Rubbish attracts rubbish.
Pwoah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can see why anyone would be attracted to either of the birdies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Send them both Down Under for appropriate punishment for their naughty ways!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Another example of Matthew Steeplees showing bias. Viscount St Davids was wrongly jailed because of you and Gina Miller (now claiming she was gang raped and might be Liberal Dem leader to get more attnetion) and taken away from his loving family for no good reasons. You are attacking another peer of the realm in the form of Viscount Rothermere and showing yet more anti-establishment bias and no respect for your elders and betters and peers of the realm. I know you have become a supporter of James Stunt and your biased ways for him and against Brexit and peers of the realm will result in you being got eventually.
Get a life you deranged b**ch!! Viscount St David is a scum and was rightly jailed! GET A LIFE COW!
This kind of shoddy journalism is indicative of how low the media have sunk. In the old days as was shown in the recent film The Post with Meryl Streep, journalists had to be on the ball and capable of working quickly without error. Technology has allowed laziness to prosper and it is to all our detriments.
Stacey: Your warped views are nearly as irresponsible as the Daily Mail’s daily ability to spout poison. Perhaps you should get a job working there. You’d fit in nicely.
There used to be a game where you could slap Ben Fogle. I can’t find it online anymore. Anyone know what became of it?
Looking into the matter we need to reach a point where the press is better regulated. You used to campaign for that if I remember rightly and you should campaign for it again. The Max Moseley backed IMPRESS is not to be trusted in the same way as what was there before it.
There’s more #fakenews about Donald Trump in the media than about anything else.