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AS THE last
Eye
noted, desperate click farmers working for the Reach stable of news titles are increasingly printing “olds” rather than news: ancient stories dressed up as fresh ones. One
Eye
reader has since happened on a particularly gruesome example.
“Man being evicted from own home cut off his own head with chainsaw,” read a shocking headline on the Mirror website on 18 December, in what appeared to be a report of a recent suicide. However, readers who clicked through found the tragic event had actually taken place in 2008, with no reason at all to revisit it 17 years later.