Smoke and Mirrors

What exactly is the Mirror playing at?

Though they are remaining silent officially, some information is beginning to drip out about what exactly is going on concerning disap

pearing stories on their website (click the link to read up in detail.) The story was posted on Wednesday evening. It was quickly picked up by various blogs. At 00:45 , Vellacott's picture story on the Mirror website had attracted five comments:

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The images of Draper leaving his house with a computer was potentially front page stuff given that this was an email based scandal, yet it was pulled from the Mirror website at 15:55 on Thursday. Half an hour later, 16:30, it was still being featured on Mirror's homepage with a broken link. Soon after, Vellacott's blog was back on line - but with the Draper story airbrushed from history. Why?

According to sources within the Mirror, Draper was photographed by Vellacott on 10th December 2008. It seems that these - by now, stock images - of Draper have been cobbled together with some misleading copy - "I was sent to Derek Drapers address at 8am this morning" said Vellacott on his blog, which morning? - 10th December, perhaps? - and put out there to add to the feeding frenzy, and to disseminate false information. TB would imagine someone went mental when they realised what Vellacott was up to and pulled the plug.

Firstly Maguire and friends are so wrapped round No10's little finger that they are blind to the fact they are being made to dance a merry tune, and now this...

It seems that the Mirror has some serious explaining to do about why it lies to it's readers?