theworsthorse.net: horsefeed

Last night, below, we posted a link to a Daily Mail piece that suggested that thousands of the Burmese monks who had been gathered up had been massacred.

This seems, thankfully, to be untrue. the Daily Mail has since replaced the page’s headline and re-fit its content. While it does contain the same imagery (including the image of a murdered monk face down in swamp), its headline is now “Burma: UN envoy meets top general as regime blames foreigners for violence.”

Sorry for what looks like alarmism — but the story had been live on the Daily Mail site when we posted it, and therefore seemed quite real.

Let’s hope it’s not.

Here’s the page that the story is on, and what it looks like now. (Warning: graphic imagery.)

It’s still not good news.