The "journalists" of The Sun. They are good at inventing stories, but proper journalism and background research is not exactly their strong point, to put it mildly.

[–] Lobster@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How do they work as journalists if they're illiterate?

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That is a good question. I've read The Sun occasionally (actually mostly for school purposes, it is a good example for a low-quality British tabloid when teaching about "The Press"), and always wondered if the people who produce this can walk and breathe at the same time...

[–] Lobster@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In this case, the sources were a professor of English at Exeter who wrote an intro to the book, and Mary Shelley expert Professor David Punter, of Bristol University.

http://archive.is/BEz2F

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Yes. And as usual with a tabloid, they take one or two sentences from the source, and invent their own story around it.