On 20 January 2018 at 19:07, Doug Weller dougweller@gmail.com wrote:
Was there any response to the Mail's article blaming us for suicides? It says they contact Wikipedia, presumably the WMF.
I have a friend who is a press officer for a large UK Charity; one towards which the Daily Mail has taken a strong dislike.
The DM regularly contact them to say something like "we're running story in 20 minutes, accusing you of X - do you want to comment?" Of course, that's nowhere near long enough for the press office to contact the staff concerned, find out what really happened, and compile a reply.
The DM then run stories saying "We contacted X for a comment".