Daily Mail forced to apologise to BBC presenter over ‘fabricated quote’
Daily Mail forced to apologise to BBC presenter over ‘fabricated quote’
Posted by F0urLeafCl0ver
Daily Mail forced to apologise to BBC presenter over ‘fabricated quote’
Daily Mail forced to apologise to BBC presenter over ‘fabricated quote’
Posted by F0urLeafCl0ver
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In case anyone wonders who benefits from the BBC getting a bad rap
Perhaps he should sue the Daily Mail for $1bn and see how that goes.
People may criticise the BBC but there is a reason why its attackers had to go back over a year to find one example, while I could just open any edition of the Daily Mail and find dozens.
ok fairs fair, the editor in chief of the Daily Mail needs to resign
and the BBC gets to spend the next week consistently shitting on the daily mail
They didn’t even misquote him, they just made up their own fucking line
>The story quoted him saying there was a ‘fear of making decisions and a fear of the truth’ in response to Donald Trump’s wrath.
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>However, it has since transpired that Robinson wasn’t just misquoted – but that he had never made a comment even remotely like that. The fabricated quote was allowed to remain unchallenged for 72 hours
Ah, the Daily Mail going after famous lefties like *checks notes* Nick Robinson.
Nothing like a spot of blue-on-blue.
Imagine DailyFail apologising. It must really hurt them and serves them right.
Is this a criminal offence under the Online Safety Act?
Shitrag still collects hundreds of upvotes every time it is spammed here.
I love how the BBC realised a advert about “honesty in reporting” just before the court case was announced
I presume the Daily Mail editor and the journalist responsible for the fabrication will be resigning.
That’s how the Mail views such shenanigans in the media, isn’t it?
There is absolutely no way that rag will ever have to meet the standards it expects of others.
They are scum.
I expect to see the editors resignation in tomorrows paper.
The apology is pointless anyway
The point of news organisations like the DM is to shape opinions, and plant seeds in people’s minds with the constant dripfed articles that explore themes and subjects they want to be nurtured. The fabricated Nick Robinson quote was just a bit of fertiliser to boost the idea that the BBC and its journalists are a left wing anti Trump cabal.
All they have to do later is just publish a tiny correction but the plants will still keep growing
Resignations at the top please? Also needs to be the top news story for a week.
This is the thing, everyone is going crazy over a bad edit of what Trump actually said and yet the right wing media routinely just completely fabricate things with barely anyone batting an eyelid.
I would never have expected such poor quality journalism from the Daily Mail, especially after the criticism they levied on the BBC for doing just this. My flabbers are truly gasted by this. I am sure they will publish a full apology tomorrow and conduct a thorough investigation into how this happened too.
Is this an AI hallucination? Did the DM use ChatGPT to write this and then just not check what it was quoting?