The Daily Record, bereft of power in Holyrood and Westminster have at last made up their mind and finally printed their 'correction' on the Megrahi cropped photograph story on the bottom left hand corner of page 2 in their Saturday May 22nd edition
It would be fair to say that the verité and The Daily Record's excuse are a few miles distant from each other. Nevertheless I'm claiming it as a victory against those talented liars in charge of the Scottish press who pump the public with lurid, unchecked, staggering amounts of fiction posing as fact.
As the lovely people at the Press Complaints Commission have only just told me about this 'correction', I hastened to these internets in search of the aforementioned article, naturally none was there.
I did however grab the link from http://www.pressdisplay.com so dear viewer, in order to see their fulsome apology for cropping an image of a cancer victim to make it appear that he was ready to take up cage fighting, please click the above link. If you can't be bothered, the weasel worded text of their 'correction' is below.
ON Nov 19, 2009, we published a report about the health of the “ Lockerbie Bomber ,” headlined “Megrahi’s doing fine.” It was accompanied by an image of al-Megrahi that was said to have been taken “yesterday”. We would like to make it clear to readers that the photograph was, in fact taken in August 2009.
When I manage to get myself a hard copy and photograph I shall post it here.
My thanks go to the fantastic Becky at the PCC who has apologised for the length of time it took for the Daily Record to publish this correction..
One can only speculate that in normal countries this woeful disregard for the truth is frowned upon, here our betters appear to shrug their shoulders, Hien.
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