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jsmirman

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3. Don't rely on The Daily Mail for real news

Reply to tabatha (Original post)

Sun Jan 29, 2012, 07:08 AM

Jan 2012

they just write stuff on the oft-chance it might be true.

Just a general warning.

I hate that google news prominently features such trashy rags like this and "The Guardian" - the entire press was at its most shamefully speculative during Saif Gaddafi's flight from the rebels, but no one made more stuff up than The Mail and The Guardian.

They are not journalists; gossip columnists, at best.

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