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May 2002
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quote: Originally posted by Jingofin
By legitimate I mean that it doesn't print falsehoods and doesn't just 'make shit up'. It may be more 'pop news' than actual news but the stories are true.
Good point, well made... They don't lose all of their libel cases 
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=e...the+world+libel
Or I could quote from the Wikipedia article on them (another creditable source!)...
* In 2005, England footballer David Beckham and his wife Victoria brought a legal action against the paper seeking libel damages over an article that carried the headline: "Posh and Becks on the Rocks." The legal action was withdrawn in 2006 and "resolved on a confidential basis," according to the couple's spokeswoman Jo Milloy.
* In April 2006, England footballer Wayne Rooney received £100,000 in damages from the publishers of The News of the World and its sister paper The Sun over articles falsely reporting he had slapped his then-fiancée and now wife, Coleen. Both had always denied the reports.
* In June 2006, England footballer Ashley Cole received damages from the publishers of The News of the World over articles falsely alleging the footballer had used a mobile phone as a gay sex toy. Together with its sister paper The Sun, The News of the World paid Cole £100,000 to settle the case
* In July 2006, a libel action brought by the Scottish politician Tommy Sheridan came to court in Edinburgh. Sheridan denied allegations, made by the newspaper in November 2004 and January 2005, that he had an affair, engaged in group sex and attended a swinger's club in Manchester. Sheridan won the case and was awarded £200,000 in damages. The newspaper intends to appeal against the jury's decision [9], and has refused to pay out the money.
I don't care if the OP turns out to be true, but anybody with more than five firing neurons knows that a typical "exclusive" in the News of the World is about as valid and newsworthy as the Mystic Meg column.
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