NDM: WEEK 13 (ii)

Sun apologises over misleading ‘Six days to terror’ story

The Sun has apologized for a story that asserted a correspondent had set out from Turkey to France without his passport, in the wake of conceding the data was manufactured. In a rectification on page 2, the daily paper said it had been "deceived" by previous marine and independent writer Emile Ghessen, who asserted he had figured out how to dodge all security checks amid a 2,000-mile venture along an outcast trail from Turkey into western Europe. In any case, Sun insiders said that, after the Croatian powers denied the record, with outputs of his visa to demonstrate it, Ghessen admitted that he had truth be told flown from Croatia to Paris keeping in mind the end goal to manage a "local injury" perhaps including his youngsters.

• ITV News has taken down a related online report about Ghessen’s travels, released before the Sun published, titled “Devon film-maker crosses European borders as Syrian refugee to prove how easy it is”.
• Ghessen’s YouTube channel, as well as Twitter account, has been taken offline since the controversy over the Sun story.
• “I apologise to all that were offended and I should have been more transparent with my work,” 
• When contacted by the Guardian, the Facebook user who posted the apology replied: “I can’t really talk due to legal stuff.”

In my opinion, this just comes to show the level of decline newspapers are facing for them to make-up fake headlines in order to attract readers.