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‘Contempt of a cosmic order’: legal risk of the Daily Mail’s 1997 “Murderers” front page

Posted on January 5, 2012 by

This morning, the Daily Mail was unusually willing to name check its rival titles, including the Independent, the Times, the Guardian and the Financial Times, for applauding the paper’s bold 1997 ‘Murderers’ headline (below left), which accused five men of … Continue reading →

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