On a day when the Spain football coach at the helm of the World champion women’s team was the next bloke to get the chop in the fall out from the carnage of the Rubiales kiss and the “toxic” environment the women footballers are said to have had to work in, media far and wide rushed to the defence of the female athletes.Īnd why not? It’s popular, after all. however, can sooth the injustice likely to have been felt by the most innocent party. No amount of patching up the bloody horror of error and gross exaggeration. Some errors remain, some things cannot be take away – and the removal of the story altogether was never on the cards, it seems. The feeding frenzy extended across the globe in several languages, mainstream through to some niche sites, including the horror of a particular wild-west comments section.Ĭorrections followed in UK mainstream media in the hours and day after the original report and genuine efforts were made to put some things right. Calmer – but still inaccurate, and too late to stop a swathe of other media picking up the yarn and running the same inaccuracies alongside a set of “according to…” named and unnamed.
Where the lie came from and whether it was intentional is neither here nor there when it comes to its effect.Īfter a flurry of activity by Peaty’s management and lawyers, the tabloid headline in The Sun removed the “stitches” in its story and reduced the horror to: “Bruised Adam Peaty has awkward run-in with teammate and his ex at training after punch-up over girlfriend…” As Churchill once said: “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” Editorial – Under a banner declaring “Carnage”, we learn that Adam Peaty is “bloodied after horror punch-up with Team GB teammate Luke Greenbank over girlfriend jibe”, the story in a British tabloid converted to “Bust-up over new swimming love triangle” in a sibling title Down Under.įalse news spreads fast.
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