The Connacht Telegraph does a Daily mail

biko wrote: »

So what did the Daily Mail do? Have that status on their facebook page?

Plenty of Daily mail stories show them up for exactly what they are.

Famous stories

The Daily Mail's front page of 8 July 1934, featured the headline "Hurrah for the Blackshirts".[46] The Mail also referred to Hitler's "sturdy young Nazis".[47]
On 7 January 1967, the Mail published a story, "The holes in our roads", about potholes, giving the examples of Blackburn where it said there were 4,000 holes. This detail was then immortalised by John Lennon in the Beatles song A Day in the Life along with an account of the death of Tara Browne which also appeared in the same issue.[48]
On 16 July 1993 the Mail ran the headline "Abortion hope after 'gay genes' finding";[49] this headline has been widely criticised in subsequent years, for example as "perhaps the most infamous and disturbing headline of all" (of headlines from tabloid newspapers commenting on the Xq28 gene).[50]
The Mail campaigned on the case of Stephen Lawrence, a black teenager who was murdered in a racially motivated attack in Eltham, London in April 1993. On 14 February 1997, the Mail led its front page with a picture of the five men accused of Lawrence's murder and the headline "MURDERERS", stating that it believed that the men had murdered Lawrence and adding "if we are wrong, let them sue us".[51] This attracted praise from Paul Foot and Peter Preston.[52]
On October 9, 2009 the Mail ran the headline "Hunger striker's £7m Big Mac: Tamil who cost London a fortune in policing was sneaking in fast-food"[53] [54] The article stated that "Scotland Yard surveillance teams using specialist monitoring equipment had watched in disbelief" as Parameswaran Subramaniyan; a Tamil hunger striker protesting outside the Houses of Parliament covertly broke his fast by secretly eating McDonald's burgers. When a request for an apology and retraction of this story was refused, Mr Subramanyam issued proceedings against the paper.[55] In court, the newspaper's claim was shown to be entirely false, the Met superintendent in charge of the policing operation confirmed there had been no police surveillance team using the "specialist monitoring equipment". As a result, on 29 July 2010, Mr Subramanyam is understood to have accepted damages of £47,500 from the Daily Mail. The newspaper also paid his legal costs, withdrew the allegations and apologised "sincerely and unreservedly" for the distress that had been caused.[56]
16 October 2009 Jan Moir article on the death of Stephen Gately,[57] which many people felt was inaccurate, insensitive, and 'homophobic', generated over 25,000 complaints, the highest number of complaints for a newspaper article in the history of the Press Complaints Commission.[58][59] Major advertisers such as Marks and Spencer responded to the criticism by asking for their own adverts to be removed from the Mail Online webpage around Moir's article. The Daily Mail removed all display ads from the webpage with the Gately column.[60]