Pants on Fire!
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John Brown
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Who?
The Times for the original false article, the people who complained or the Times for issuing an apology?
Agent_zed
Established Member
and the retraction will be on page 20 in font size 5, backwards and upside down in the margin.
Finding apologies hidden somewhere in newspapers reminds me of Arthur Dent complaining about the demolition of his house and mentioning that the plans were not properly displayed:
- Arthur Dent: “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
- Mr. Prosser: “That’s the display department.”
- Arthur Dent: “With a flashlight.”
- Mr. Prosser: “Ah, well the lights had probably gone.”
- Arthur Dent: “So had the stairs.”
- Mr. Prosser: “But look, you found the notice didn’t you?”
- Arthur Dent: “Yes,” said Arthur, “Yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.’”
I thought that was obvious from the thread title. But to help you out, the Times making things up.
The Daily Mail had to print a retraction over some other nonsense they made up about EV’s some time ago.
Why do they do it, surely they must know they’ll get caught out?
Because it panders to the rightwing antiEV/antigreen/anti everything people who tend to be the major readers of such nonsense- and they know damn well that people like that never read past the 'big font' headlines- and certainly won't see the forced apology...
And they literally don't care about 'the truth' or anything else- sensational overblown headlines gains them what they want- eyes on their articles... (and $$$ from the advertisers)
And they know their target audience hates EV's, so what a few 'apologies' buried in the back worth, when its the big font 'headlines' that their readers will be remembering (and passing on in their echo chambers)
And they literally don't care about 'the truth' or anything else- sensational overblown headlines gains them what they want- eyes on their articles... (and $$$ from the advertisers)
And they know their target audience hates EV's, so what a few 'apologies' buried in the back worth, when its the big font 'headlines' that their readers will be remembering (and passing on in their echo chambers)
Because sensational news sells papers and, all they have to do is print a retraction later, they don't care, they sold the story. I stopped reading The Times when the News Corp Group took it over.
John Brown
Freeloading Social media influenza
Well, it wasn't obvious to me. Maybe I'm stupid. On the other hand, the article you linked to does say it was a rare successful complaint, so I guess they take the attitude that it's worth a try printing lies, as there's a good chance they'll get away with it.
Also, I thought the title referred to the new craze for wearing Lithium battery powered heated underpants.
