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Old February 14th 14, 05:35 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Tom Gardner[_2_]
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On 14/02/14 16:12, Frank Whiteley wrote:
On Friday, February 14, 2014 8:10:02 AM UTC-7, Geoff Brown wrote:
At 22:53 10 February 2014, Gilbert Smith wrote:

Eric Munk wrote:




At 20:38 09 February 2014, Sean F F2 wrote:


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...der-crash.html






That refers to a 2004 accident. Not recent.


I do hope you are right, but the date in the header (Monday, Feb 10


2014) - the only date on the page - is very misleading if you are


correct.






And today the same page carries the date of Friday 14th 2014 - i.e. today's

date. This is normal for most web sites that want you to think they keep

them up-to-date.


That is simply bad web design and poor composition. The Internet is full of web articles that lack posting dates or carry the wrong (in this case) current date. Authors should date their own bylines.


Another good reason for using the "no-script" browser plugin.

The Daily Wail never lets facts get in the way of a good
scare story. Their audience is middle-aged women with too
much time on their hand - the so-called "worried well"

Typical article (described by Ben Goldacre, IIRC) was about
a dangerous chemical in food, saying they should ban it.
They /had/ banned it, 5 years earlier!