The Daily Mail has such a bad reputation for faking stories and fabricating "facts", that even Wikipedia banned it as a source, citing its "poor fact checking, sensationalism and flat-out fabrication".
Quite a lot of fakery in the Mail was exposed over the years. Certainly a proportion of the "political correctness gone mad" stories they dreamt up. And the fabricated cannabis scaremongering "news". And the falsehoods on climate change, Labour politicans, etc. Sometimes it wasn't entirely fake - they just invented the more sensational details. They got an absolute hammering from scientists and doctors for "using minor studies to generate scare stories or being misleading". Quite often the rulings against the Daily Mail conclude not just that they got one thing wrong but that they made "a series of factual inaccuracies", or a string of misleading claims. Typically all slanted politically.
I was reminded of this when looking for further info on two stories that Tourist mentioned in the recent NHS thread, on supposedly far-left woke nuttiness in the NHS. Both stories, it turns out, come originally from the Daily Mail (or at least I couldn't find any other sources with the specific gaudy details). That makes me somewhat wary, particularly when I was unable to fact-check the details adequately - although that doesn't necessarily make them untrue. I found the framing of both utterly misleading, in terms of the wider context presented (generally collapsing NHS).
The Daily Mail seems to specialise in using outrageous stand-out "woke" stories as somehow causally explaining wider instituional malaise. But without any substantiation for any causal link (and they conflate stand-out cases with typical cases, etc). The Daily Express does the same thing, but with immigration. In this way these newspapers deflect from the real (ie better substantiated, factually, statistically) causal links to things such as economic downturns, instituational failures, etc.
It's such a f*cking tragedy that a large proportion of the good people in Britain get their "news" from these appalling, lying, politically tendentious billionaire-owned rags.
@Tourist - thanks for the info. Good piece you quote from care.org.uk, which uses sensible language and comes the day after the Daily Mail report:
'The proposed NHS training is based on research findings by activist group the LGBT Foundation, which was commissioned for the Department of Health in 2021 and has not undergone peer-review. The report urged maternity services to scrap “non-inclusive language” in favour of terms like “chestfeeding”.'
Interesting that the independent (non-NHS) research recommending this language was commissioned by the Conservative government, and was discussed critically within (and outside) the NHS - resulting in its withdrawal. This was a £100,000 contract (for the program as a whole, not just the external LGBT-language recommendations) - a tiny amount relative to the billions in private contracts having a far greater effect on NHS.
So much for the Mail's spurious implication that "woke" examples like this are a significant cause of a more widespread malaise in the NHS or are connected with deaths of babies or "unsafe" conditions for mothers. Obviously misleading bollocks. The Mail concludes its piece: "If the NHS cannot perform the basic task of looking after expectant mothers and their babies, what on earth is it for?" What is it for? What total, dishonest horsesh*t. But gullible people fall for this kind of framing over and over again. And the Mail has millions of readers.
Also good background from the 'Reduxx' feminist website (written by Bryndis Blackadder!) that you quote at length, and which is dated a few days before the Mail report. That certainly shows the absurd "chestfeeding", etc, language was real, although it comes from someone outside the NHS - and formed just part of the recommendations on which the £100K program was based. (To look at it cynically, one could imagine the Conservative Health Secretary approving this contract with the thought: "What's 100K if it keeps these LGBT activists and the woke media off our backs").
Anyway, back to the important issues... such as the imminent collapse of the NHS due to 13 years of Conservative anti-NHS ideology, underfunding, mismanagement and spending countless BILLIONS on private contracts that might as well be burning the f*cking money.