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[brionon]

Where did I get the idea that Ken Livingstone was Gay ?

[Kromovaracun]

Thought I'd give another example of DM phoney reporting.

In this article from February, the Mail repeats a story from the back of the Sun (which had the same title) from July 2003.

Worse, the original article has been proven (mostly) false (see here.

The article also avoids ever actually saying that swan remains were around. It just says things like 'other bones lay near to a tent and cooking utensils'. It includes the word 'Swan' in the sentence, but never explicitly says they've been eaten. I'll give you one guess as to why.

Look carefully at the language in the article and you'll see there's no definite claim made that swans were even eaten by people. Just that they were found near them. The reporter also claims to know that the inhabitants of three tents were Poles (without talking to them). The best evidence it draws on are local people saying things like 'I have heard it is Eastern Europeans[...]'.

Not exactly the most solid evidence.

So, a lot of the assertions in the article mimick a phoney source that's been disproved, there's no direct evidence (well, outside of that which has allready been disproved), and the bulk of the article's conclusion is drawn from implications in the author's language.

[anotheoldgit]

Kromovaracum, are you Gromit's "Spin Doctor"?