I can't believe how carried away we are all getting here! A couple of dozen enthusiasts clicking on a link is driving the story to be copy and pasted every week?!?! Seriously?
It's far more simple than that. The Daily Mail is a publication that sells is wares by evocing emotions of bigotry and hatred amongst people that read it. Always has been, always will be.
The Daily mirror is a sensationalist red top that would do anything to take a swipe at The Sun and any business dealings it has with companies like Merlin.
Although I completely understand why none of us would want to validate their ridiculous stories by adding to their click counts, to suggest we are having any significant impact on what they write is ridiculous. The fact is, the journalists who are writing these articles obviously have very little knowledge of The Smiler, or how a roller coaster or theme park operates in general. They just want to put stories out there that provoke emotion, stories that look sexy. That then captures people's imagination and sells papers/increases website traffic.
This is no different to claiming Freddie Starr ate a hamster, Syrian refugees are coming to steal our jobs and homes or slagging off Ed Millibands dead father. The story is loosing it's sex appeal and will be all but dead bar the odd rogue snippet article by the time the park reopens in 2017, by which time these people would have found someone else to pick on. This will happen regardless of any of us on here or any other forum.
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All online articles have their success measured by how many hits they get. Every hit contributes to that. Even just one or two make a difference despite it not seeming like a big deal.
And I don't fully buy this anti-Sun agenda. The Sun themselves have posted many articles on the crash, most of which haven't been complimentary towards Towers at all.