Daily Mail fact checking, sensationalism, and flat-out fabrication". The independent Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC News), in its April 2017 assessment of the newspaper, wrote: "Has a strong conservative bias and has a poor track record with fact checkers" and rated it as right bias, with factual reporting "mixed", but did not reduce it to the questionable sources/fake news category. "Up and Running" is a strip distributed by Knight Features and "Fred Basset" has followed the life of the dog of the same name in a two-part strip in the "Daily Mail" since 8 July 1963. The long-running "Teddy Tail" cartoon strip, was
Daily Mail of the operation and Alfred as Editor, the "Mail" from the start adopted an imperialist political stance, taking a patriotic line in the Second Boer War, leading to claims that it was not reporting the issues of the day objectively. From the beginning, the "Mail" also set out to entertain its readers with human interest stories, serials, features and competitions (which were also the main means by which the Harmsworths promoted the paper). In 1900 the "Daily Mail" began printing simultaneously in both Manchester and London, the first national newspaper to do so (in 1899, the "Daily Mail" had organised