The Daily Express sold 752,699 copies in January, down 2.4% on January 2007, and the Sunday Express sold 704,436, down 10%, according to the official ABC circulation figures. So you can draw your own conclusions:eek:
The Sunday Express sold 676,165 copies in February, a drop of 17% on February 2007 and the lowest sale in the paper's history. The Daily Express sold 736,634 last month, a drop of 3% on February 2007. Source: ABC
Gerry and Kate McCann are threatening to sue the Express over "wilding and grossly defamatory" articles. And apparently Peter Hill has told journalists that "the weather is the new Diana". Which has been fairly well known for a while.
The sales figures quoted above are still depressingly high for such utter rags that have the gall to call themselves 'newspapers' even if they are heading in the right direction.
Gerry and Kate McCann are threatening to sue the Express over "wilding and grossly defamatory" articles. And apparently Peter Hill has told journalists that "the weather is the new Diana". Which has been fairly well known for a while.
I don't think we'll be hearing much more about Maddie in the Express newspapers for a while - the management are too busy preparing to combat the case being threatened by the McCanns:D
'Maddie' has been nothing more than lazy 'journalism' (if such a term applies to the rag) by The Express.I notice that she's still missing despite all their 'leads' and 'exclusives'.:rolleyes:
Radio 4 has just reported that Wednesday's Express will include an apology to the McCanns on its front page.
Yep, was on the BBC1 10 o clock news too.... the court is due to rule about the defamation case tomorrow. 4 newspapers; the Express, Star and their sunday equivalents are all involved, they'll be paying damages to the Find Maddie appeal and the Express and The Star will print front page apologies tomorrow http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7303801.stm
Unprecedented, just goes to show what happns when you cost-cut and run a newspaper into the ground
Hurrah for that - the "Worlds Greatest Newspaper" has to admit front page to publishing a load of rubbish.
I made the unpleasant journey over to the express website to see if I could find anthing - absolutely no mention of the McCanns anywhere. Even on a search you get no results at all (they suggest you try another search term like 'Princess Diana' instead...)
Another blow for the Express. On the Holiday Truths forum a couple of people have just reported receiving over a thousand pounds each from the Small Claims Court because then did not get their promised "£10 Cruise For All Our Readers", after waiting three years for them.
Perhaps 'The Express' will take more care in such reporting in the future?;):rolleyes:
What I don't understand is, surely the Express would have in-house lawyers to vet copy before publication? - as is normal practice. Or they weren't doing their job properly?
"The Daily Express today takes the unprecedented step of making a front-page apology to Kate and Gerry McCann.
We do so because we accept that a number of articles in the newspaper have suggested that the couple caused the death of their missing daughter Madeleine and then covered it up.
We acknowledge that there is no evidence whatsoever to support this theory and that Kate and Gerry are completely innocent of any involvement in their daughter's disappearance.
We trust that the suspicion that has clouded their lives for many months will soon be lifted.
As an expression of its regret, the Daily Express has now paid a very substantial sum into the Madeleine Fund and we promise to do all in our power to help efforts to find her.
Kate and Gerry, we are truly sorry to have added to your distress.
We assure you that we hope Madeleine will one day be found alive and well and will be restored to her loving family."
It's reported on Radio 4 this morning that Desmond refuses to be interviewed on the matter. Perhaps he should be subjected to the same media harassment that the McCanns suffered. It's ironic that newspapers like dishing out this sort of thing , but don't like to be on the receiving end.
I notice that the apology mentions "a number of articles". I have heard that over a hundred articles were mentioned in the complaint. That's more than just a "number".
I thought it was rather odd when BBC Breakfast TV - reporting the story this morning - did not seem to realise the newspapers are owned by the same person ! They were rambling on about ''unprecedented'' front page apologies.Didn't The Sun fill the whole of its front page with an apology to Sir Elton John some years ago when they made completely unfounded allegations about him. And I think they paid him £1 million as well:D:D
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I don't think we'll be hearing much more about Maddie in the Express newspapers for a while - the management are too busy preparing to combat the case being threatened by the McCanns:D
Yep, was on the BBC1 10 o clock news too.... the court is due to rule about the defamation case tomorrow. 4 newspapers; the Express, Star and their sunday equivalents are all involved, they'll be paying damages to the Find Maddie appeal and the Express and The Star will print front page apologies tomorrow
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7303801.stm
Unprecedented, just goes to show what happns when you cost-cut and run a newspaper into the ground
I made the unpleasant journey over to the express website to see if I could find anthing - absolutely no mention of the McCanns anywhere. Even on a search you get no results at all (they suggest you try another search term like 'Princess Diana' instead...)
http://news.sky.com/skynews/picture_gallery/0,,91232-1309903,00.html
Because the McCanns were suing them, and they settled/lost.
We do so because we accept that a number of articles in the newspaper have suggested that the couple caused the death of their missing daughter Madeleine and then covered it up.
We acknowledge that there is no evidence whatsoever to support this theory and that Kate and Gerry are completely innocent of any involvement in their daughter's disappearance.
We trust that the suspicion that has clouded their lives for many months will soon be lifted.
As an expression of its regret, the Daily Express has now paid a very substantial sum into the Madeleine Fund and we promise to do all in our power to help efforts to find her.
Kate and Gerry, we are truly sorry to have added to your distress.
We assure you that we hope Madeleine will one day be found alive and well and will be restored to her loving family."
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/38490/Kate-and-Gerry-McCann-Sorry
I notice that the apology mentions "a number of articles". I have heard that over a hundred articles were mentioned in the complaint. That's more than just a "number".
The weather can't be libelled either, but that doesn't mean they can't apologise to their readers for printing nonsense