Now I’m not saying for a second that this isn’t news, but I really don’t like the way the tabloids are reporting it. They all have headlines like “Millie – Body Found”. Only by reading the details do you discover that a body has been found that just might be Millie’s. And a couple of hours later the police announce that it definitely isn’t Millie and the papers all end up looking very stupid. Bet we don’t see a follow-up on tomorrow’s front pages tho’.

And now we get to the serious stuff. This is all about the tabloid’s desperate need to sell as many papers as possible and the fact that they don’t really care whether or not what they print is true. This story had been shown to be false by the middle of the morning. But the following day there was no sign of a correction or an apology. Sometimes it seems that the tabloids really believe that their readers don’t remember

what the paper wrote the previous day.