Express and Daily Star newspapers’ online apology to Madeleine McCann’s parents – comments turned off
March 19th, 2008Posted by Oliver Luft in Newspapers, Online Journalism
UPDATE: Were the papers right to turn their comments off on these stories? – take the poll
The Express and Daily Star newspapers both printed front-page apologies today to the Kate and Gerry McCann – the parents of missing toddler Madeleine McCann.
The two Richard Desmond-owned newspapers both issued short, almost identical stories.
“We now recognise that such a suggestion is absolutely untrue and that Kate and Gerry are completely innocent of any involvement in their daughter’s disappearance,” they both stated.
Another similarity, both newspapers turned the comments system off on the online versions of these stories ‘for legal reasons’.
Tags: comments, Daily Star, Gerry McCann, Kate, Madeleine McCann, newspapers online apology, online apology, online versions, Richard Desmond, The Express
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March 26th, 2008 at 12:50 am
Hasn’t the subject been done to death?