these lying bastions of tabloid journalism have got off very lightly for the lies they have been telling to keep the Madelain story pumped up, just £600,000 between the 11 "newspapers".
At a hearing in the high court lasting less than seven minutes, the media organisations (the Daily and Sunday Express and Daily Star from Express Newspapers; the Daily Mail, Evening Standard, and Metro of Associated Newspapers; the Daily and Sunday Mirror and the Scottish Daily Record of the MGN group; and News Group's Sun and News of the World - which together have a combined print circulation of 15m copies) acknowledged that the stories they had run about Murat over nine months were entirely untrue, should never have been made and were unreservedly withdrawn.
They are not even worth wiping your arse with.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/18/medialaw.pressandpublishing
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