Express.co.uk - news or fake?

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The Express.co.uk

  1. They're not afraid to tell the truth!

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  2. I believe it but take it with a pinch of salt (so not wholeheartedly).

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  3. Fake news, they're lying to you!

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  1. The Rhetoric of Life

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    https://www.express.co.uk/news/poli...vote-City-of-London-House-of-Commons-EU-trade
    https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1...wiss-hostage-financial-service-trade-deal-spt
    https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1384498/brexit-news-switzerland-told-eu-deal-with-uk-instead-spt

    Are just somethings people refuse to believe because the Express report this.

    Do you believe anything the UK publication Express say?

    Is it real, or is it fake?

    I personally like to use them as little as possible on here because people just don't/won't believe it because it's published in the Express.
    But, is this right?
    If the Express were full of lies, why are they considered news?

    I argue they're no more biased than Euronews for example.
     
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    Montegriffo Well-Known Member

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    They usually get the date right on the front page.
    Everything else needs a pinch of salt. Especially Brexit stories.
     
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    Oh ye of little faith. :rolleyes:
     
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    The Express is a bit more emotionally manipulative/tabloidly than some of the other but if you ignore celebrity/royal gossip they do about as well as anybody else on facts.
     
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    I personally think they are a bit tabloid like. Probably exaggerate, sensationalize a little, or sometimes base stories off somewhat scant evidence. However, I don't believe they just make the stories up. All the stories are based on real facts, or have a kernel of truth, and they will cover certain types of stories that most of the other mainstream media tries to scrub away and sweep under the rug.
     
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    Like several of the British tabloids, the Express isn't at all reliable (and one of the worst offenders). That doesn't mean that everything they report is false but it does mean that they will routinely report things that aren't entire true, only report one side of an issue or dispute or spin things to make them sound more dramatic than they really are.

    That means anything that you only have the Express of a source for can't be taken at face value, especially if it's anything controversial or surprising. It could be true, it could be false or it could (and probably is) somewhere in-between.

    Considered by who?
     
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    Well, to be fair, most of the mainstream media in the US does that these days.
     
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