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 the "Daily Mail"'s largely female readership. The "Mail"s medical and science journalism has been criticised by some doctors and scientists, accusing it of using minor studies to generate scare stories. In 2015, freelance journalist Djaffer Ait Aoudia told "The Guardian" that he secretly filmed a "Mail" representative negotiating for a "hacker" to obtain a café's CCTV of the November 2015 Paris attacks. The café owner agreed to supply the footage for €50,000. "The Daily Mail" responded: "There is nothing controversial about the Mail's acquisition of this video, a copy of which the police already had in their possession." "The Guardian"