How the Daily Mail works...

[Gromit]

William Hague:
'It is likely that we are going to be able to win the next election ... I put it no more strongly than that.'

Is translated into the headline
Tories will win the next election says confident Hague

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-117500 2/Tories-win-election-says-confident-Hague.htm l

Can you think of a Daily Mail headline for an historic event...?

[craft1948]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-466403 /Europe-holds-breath-bird-flu-returns-France.h tml

[R1Geezer]

How about:

" AB's Gromit, says something nice about the Tory party - shocker"

[B00]

Aren't they all like that though?

"likely" and "ifs and buts" (unless its spelt butts and in The Sport) don't sell papers.

[sqad617]

"New Labour will win the next election" HEADLINES.

That would be a "historic"event.

[craft1948]

will the page have a black border round it sqad.....

[anotheoldgit]

Get a life Gromit, did your mother trip over a Daily Mail while she was carrying you?

If you know anything about journalism you should know that it is the Sub-Editor's job to sensationalise headlines to a story.

This is what attracts persons to read further, it also helps to sell newspapers.

[ludwig]

Why pick on the Daily Mail, it's how they all work isn't it? A bit like this..
'hello is that prince charles?
'yes''
'Are you gay?'
'er..no'.

results in..

PRINCE CHARLES DENIES BEING GAY

And that would be one of the more thoroughly researched and factual headlines. w@nkers the lot of them.

[anotheoldgit]

This first photograph is pretty descriptive, courtesy of the Guardian

HEADLINE:

La Gloria � crucible of swine flu?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2009/a pr/

[anotheoldgit]

Sorry:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2009/a pr/29/swine-flu-mexico?picture=346610561

[Gromit]

Middle East 1300BC
Parting of the Red Sea leads to calls for tighter border controls

Camelot 650AD
Safety fears after Lady emerges from lake with Excalibur

London 1665AD
Great Plague - foreign imports to blame

[sqad617]

gromit....LOL...very good.

[Ethel]

The problem isn't with the content of the articles, which overall are factual - the problem arises because a lot of people read no further than the headlines, and you get a 'kneejerk' reaction from sensationalism.

[Ankou]

http://www.teamfishcake.co.uk/mail/mail.php

[Gromit]

Orleans 1431BC
Should woman burned at stake have been at home looking after her family?

Crystal Palace 1936
Is glass safe? - Safety fears after palace fire

Golgotha (the place of the skulls) in Jerusalem
Pilate solves Hippy problem

Can you think of a Daily Mail headline for an historic event...?

[Ankou]

30AD Just after The Last Supper
Gay man arrested after kissing man in public, 12 other gays evade arrest

[ludwig]

January 1934
'Hurrah for the Blackshirts!'

..oh sorry that's a real one. My mistake.

[Ankou]

Wieluń 1939
More Poles set to take British jobs after German takeover

[Ankou]

Roswell 1947
Travellers cause millions of pounds worth of damage after joy riding frenzy ends in crash

[Gromit]

Ireland 1649
Cromwell solves the problem of the Irish forever

Botany Bay 1770
Captain Cook plans a cultural wonderland for new country

[brionon]

Gromit doesn't deny Rape ? or Gromit denies rape. You're damned either way.