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Originally Posted by Knotlob
Hello Eyecaramba
Thanks for your reasoned post.
OK, it's somewhere between 'Freddy Star ate my hamster' (though that was another tabloid like the Sun) and a pukka Scientific Journal. However, we do have libel laws in Europe and if the Daily Mail was completely inaccurate, then they would surely have been sued, if completely false.
knotlob
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I suspect that these magazines have a team of highly trained attorneys on staff to fend off such libel lawsuits, because the tabloids seem to get away with a lot.
Just out of curiosity, I checked out that "Freddy Star" comment you made. That was a real headline, and as it turns out, Freddy Star (aka Frederick Leslie Fowell) wrote in his autobiography "I have never eaten or even nibbled a live hamster, gerbil, guinea pig, mouse, shrew, vole or any other small mammal."
So there.