It's a sad day when one of Britain's top selling newspapers gets told by the on-line encyclopedia
Wikipedia to clear out their desk and leave the premises.
The Daily Mail has been told that it can be no longer be used as a reliable source although Whispers feels quite a few British tabloids could well receive the same treatment.
We here are quite fond of the
Mail even if they do nick the odd story from us. We've also made a habit of posting our regular
Daily Mail Fails such as this ripper when they reported on the sad death of comedienne
Tracey Ullman's mother. In the photo caption they claimed (in several editions) that the lady accompanying Ullman was her mother when in fact it was Australian actress
Nell Campbell of
Rocky Horror Film fame. The fact both women appeared to be of similar age seems to have eluded the editor.
Alas the curse of
Daily Mail Fail has struck again on the very day they get their marching orders from Wikipedia.
In this story about the sad death of British society identity
Tara Palmer -Tomkinson they make some strange mistakes, firstly claiming Palmer-Tomkinson's body had been discovered by her
"Portuguese cleaner" and then just a paragraph later claiming her body had been discovered by a
'friend'.
Mind you, perhaps her Portuguese maid was a close friend.
Still, who are we to cast stones. There's probably a blog somewhere compiling some of our corkers.
Braakensiek, pictured here in Whispers' photo from some years ago where she jumped out of a cake at a birthday party for fashion designer Alex Perry was 45.
