Most humiliating correction you’ll see this week
From today’s Daily Telegraph.
"Remember that black student yesterday, the one on the front cover, who was attacking white authors? Yeah, we made that up. Sorry." pic.twitter.com/eaAx4l8HkT
— Nicholas Guyatt (@NicholasGuyatt) October 26, 2017
So pretty much the whole thing, then. That front page again.
Something v concerning about way Telegraph put only this young woman's pic & not more complex story on front page. As if to incite trolling pic.twitter.com/iVdSykYod2
— Samira Ahmed (@SamiraAhmedUK) October 25, 2017
And the apology.
‘An Oct 25 article incorrectly stated that under proposals by academic staff in response to an open letter from students on ‘decolonising’ its English Faculty, Cambridge University will be forced to replace white authors with black writers.
The proposals were in fact recommendations. Neither they nor the open letter called for the University to replace white authors with black ones and there are no plans to do so.’
And yet as some people pointed out …
EXCEPT THEY DON'T EVEN SAY SORRY !
— Nicholas Guyatt (@NicholasGuyatt) October 26, 2017
Given the torrent of abuse she's had to endure as a result of the misreporting, I think something more than a 'clarification' is needed
— Bemi Idowu (@mr_bemi) October 26, 2017
Large financial settlement would be a start.
— Nicholas Guyatt (@NicholasGuyatt) October 26, 2017
Didn't stop them running this cartoon today though. Too tempting to let facts get in the way, it seems. pic.twitter.com/5KBC0Q1EgJ
— ˗ˏˋ tom ˊˎ˗ (@yellowtwentyone) October 26, 2017
Like I said before, the law should be that the apology is the same page and size as the original story. Not tucked away on page 22
— Martin (@martinjguk) October 26, 2017
Or rather 'not sorry'… Where is your apology to Lola Olufemi for the abuse she has suffered as a result of your inaccuracy @Telegraph? https://t.co/OvEanPVaGg
— Caroline Dodds Pennock (@carolinepennock) October 26, 2017