Here's how the Daily Star website is covering the unprecedented front-page apologies to the McCanns right now:
And the Daily Express website? That won't load at all.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
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It looks like they're taking this new grovelling position very seriously. I've just looked at their other front-page story online ('SHANNON MUM IS QUIZZED AGAIN') - If you scroll down, there's a link to other stories marked
» MORE 'NEWS' HERE...
Not news, just 'news'. Presumably from the Star's 'writers'.
I also noticed that for the first time in months, the front page isn't graced by 'model' and 'non-racist' Danielle Lloyd.
It's simply unbelievable that the Star, having handed over thousands to the McCanns for implying they dunnit, is now doing the same to Shannon's parents. I guess they're hoping the Matthews family are too pikey to sue.
In the Guardian today Mark Lawson writes that the Express papers - and the media in general - should have been permitted to denigrate the McCanns until proven innocent (in effect). I don't believe Lawson thought this at all until some idiot 26 year old commissioning ed asked him to be controversial in order to excite a reaction from the paper's commenters - who obliged of course. Why can't more people just die prematurely?
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