Should some newspapers be more careful about researching their sources?

[corny]

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/01/..._hp_ref=uk

The Daily Mail has published THREE stories where their "source of information" has turned out to be a self confessed Twitter troll using a fake account. Your thoughts please

[Paladin]

lol, huffpo as a source for that question

[shOrtie]

Sounds about normal for many tabloids.

[OneDrop]

I think the Regulator needs to start putting its foot down. You can't really ask the Mail to behave, they need to be made to such is their thirst for sensationalism and scaremongering

[Annsan_In_Him]

Publish and be damned is not always a good motto! There is another recent example of this with the report initially failing to mention that the man in question was a Conservative Councillor who had said such things in that capacity, before switching to UKIP. The minute he did, the press jumped on his statements, inferring that UKIP is full of such people with similar views. But for at least two years, he had been saying all of that as a Conservative Councillor! The report (BBC, no less) now makes it clear that the chap was a Conservative who took Mr Cameron to task before switching to UKIP.

However, there is prejudice against UKIP and reporting in order to try to bring down a Party that is now threatening the two-horse race that is British politics. AiH

[Jack H]

No surprise really, very few real reporters exist these days on the Nationals, they all rely on PR handouts for their "news", or, "Sources".

In the case of Flowers, I find it strange that Camoron uses his name so much as an insult for Ed, Flowers was only Chairman for 3 months under Labour, but Camoron has been praising him for 3 years due to "Ethical Banking" policies, odd that...

[tillan2k]

if news paper research sources then they would not be able to publish any news ... stale news are no readable value

[Bear]

The mantra of newspapers seems to be,'If in doubt,make it up'.

[David S]

I agree with you, but there is little hope of it happening until we have privacy laws and much stricter penalties for phone hacking. As newspaper circulations continue to decline they will aim for a lower and lower standard, mostly covering stuff that would be censored out of TV and Radio news

[Guyzers]

They aren't in it to tell the truth. Apparently that's one of the few newspapers that makes profit. If it was a big deal for the DM to tell the truth, talk reason, then it would be a source of concern but as the staff there are writing a mix of gossip, polemic and outright fiction they don't mind about that. I expect other papers do the same.