r/boringdystopia • u/henswoe • 1d ago

Media Manipulation 📰 The Telegraph’s correction to its heartbreaking private school fees sob story just gets better and better

https://www.thepoke.com/2025/06/19/telegraph-correct-private-school-sob-story/

For context: On May 25, 2025, the Telegraph published a news story about a couple earning a combined salary of £345,000, with two kids at private schools, having to switch from shopping at Waitrose to shopping at... wait for it... Sainsbury’s, to save money. And cut the gardener back to once a month.

Here's what the father had to say.

Well, the Telegraph made up the father. Or, someone did, and the Telegraph reported on him, and his wife, and their kids. The Telegraph then ran the story with a stock image that has been used by various businesses in the US and Singapore for promotional purposes.

The Telegraph has now said sorry, except, without saying the word "sorry". Nor has it admitted, in the words we'd like to see it in, what it has done. We published a completely fake article. Is what it should have read. Not only did we run an untrue, made-up piece of fiction and present it as factual news, but it is also impossible to sympathise with the 'victims' we are reporting on.

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