Is the Daily Mail right to publish this story or should we have been kept in the dark about it?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....staurants-Africa.html

I ask this rather unusual question because 'The Daily Wail' (as some wish to call it) often criticise them for publishing such sensualist stories.

[Bazile]

I beleive the OP was attempting to be sarcastic in his question

[Baldric]

Baz, if you bother to read aogs responses at 12:27 & 12:31 you will see that is incorrect!

[FredPuli43]

The Daily Star, Metro,ITV News (London), The Sydney Daily Telegraph (!) and The Newham Recorder (where else?) are among the news sources for this which came up on a quick google of the woman's name plus fraud. It seems to have been regarded as more of a local London area story than a national one, the Daily Star and the Mail being the only nationals to cover it, apparently.

Is the Mail criticised here for publishing sensational stories? Other tabloids do the same. Surely, the Mail gets criticised for its repeated failure to give material facts which would give an honest picture, for its headlines and opening paragraph which are not supported by the facts it gives later in its own story, and for its apparent policy of selecting stories, not in themselves particularly newsworthy, on certain common themes, to appeal to the prejudices of its readership.

These defects are not as apparent, if at all, in The Times, The Telegraph, or even The Guardian. Indeed, the Daily Mirror seems to lack them.

[anotheoldgit]

/// It seems to have been regarded as more of a local London area story than a national one. ///

Amazing, a family of Ugandan fraudsters who stole £4million of British taxpayers money in benefits, and yet it is regarded more of a local London area story?

Good job we have the Daily Mail to inform the rest of the country's taxpayers where our money is going to.

[FredPuli43]

Aog, the Daily Mail had to print it as national news, even if most of the other papers did not. It has three of the four elements that make it the perfect Daily Mail story, to appeal to their readers particular interests
1) benefit fraud 2) foreign perpetrators 3) perpetrators are black. If only it had some Muslim element, it would be the perfect Daily Mail story.

[humbersloop]

not quite fred, nobody's gay ;)

[FredPuli43]

Yes, humbersloop,quite. I only thought of that bonus point myself after I had put the post to bed :)