[vixen99]

You can't guarantee anything of the sort. Nobody with any sense uses the Daily Mail as a prime source of informed news because its role is entertainment mostly via hot gossip which people, though clearly not you, enjoy. Please list major news stories where the Mail as reported lies and include a comparison with the record of the broadsheets in the UK.

As to this particular new item, the Guardian doesn't take your view. “One giant container ship can emit almost the same amount of cancer and asthma-causing chemicals as 50m cars, study finds” http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/apr/09/shipping-p... and can we see your authoritative links showing that these ships are fine examples of excellent emission control with regard to toxic gases.

Best not to be bigoted and simply remain wary regarding all news items wherever they’re to be found. And no, I don't work for the Daily Mail.

[Retric]

You can't take 50m modern cars with pollution control systems then say worldwide car pollution = ~#of cars in the world / that number. The worst cars running on the worst fuel create several times more pollution than a new modern car. And world wide there are a lot of old cars.

So, in this case yes, they are saying something that's wrong.

[randallsquared]

You're complaining that they should have compared to only shiny new cars, rather than actually existing cars, because then the comparison would have fared better for the cars?

[slance]

A lot of people use the daily mail as their primary source of news (I'm not sure what informed news means).

Hacker news is a site full of smart coder/developer types, but I think most of them are not UK based so won't know what an unpleasant paper the Daily Mail is.