Epic Fail By The Mail

How about this for an epic, hilarious fail by the morons at the Daily Fail? They quoted the famous spoof twitter account Sir Michael Take as support for their spurious claim that the Tories are somehow acting sensibly in dumping sewage onto Cornish beaches. “The Daily Mail’s dependability for reputable, well-sourced journalism took another hit this weekend after the newspaper quoted a parody account in an article about sewage dumping at UK beaches…..Reporting on the latest discharge in Cornwall, the Daily Mail chose to quote Sir Michael Take (Mickey Take) in their coverage after he posted these comments on social media.” Take had Tweeted “You’ll see the beach is empty so NO ONE is being harmed. This would of course have been stopped by the nit picking EU. Brexit means we can now employ such SAFE procedures. Good news!” You really couldn’t make it up. Only the Fail could stoop so low. Mind you, you have to worry about the state of British journalism when one of our most popular daily newspapers resorts to citing such an obvious spoof twitter account to back up it’s arguments: they’re so eager to maintain their pro-Tory, pro-Brexit, anti-EU agenda that they clearly didn’t even bother to check their sources.

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