This afternoon, news rooms worldwide were on hold as they waited to see which way the Italian court’s would swing on Amanda Knox’s appeal. In hopes of being first, or at least quick, many newsroom probably had two stories, near-ready for publishing: one assuming she was found guilty once more, the other reporting that she has been set free. When she was acquitted, most outlets got the story up quickly and correctly. One, however, got things wrong. Perhaps hoping to get the jump on the story, the Daily Mail hit go on the wrong one, proclaiming the exact opposite of how things actually went: “Guilty: Amanda Knox looks stunned as appeal against murder conviction is rejected.”

The hacking collective LulzSec (or Lulz Security) has hacked a News International-owned website and have published a fake Sun article about Rupert Murdoch’s death of a drug overdose.

Well, on the upside, Fox & Friends will now be able to tell the difference between phone hacking and being hacked.

Nevermind. That Al Qaeda threat splashed across the front page of Rupert Murdoch‘s Sun a few weeks ago? Well, in a page two correction yesterday, editors just wanted to pass on an update on that story: yeah, turns out that scary bit we told you, well that wasn’t true. Sorry. Moving right along.

As the Guardian‘s Roy Greenslade writes today, the pre-Christmas story about a supposed terrorist plot against a live holiday episode of a popular UK television show, Coronation Street, had British journalists smelling a rat from the start. “It had that familiar…ring of complete nonsense.”

Google may be acquiring Groupon, but one sneaky Spanish woman has gone ahead and one-upped literally everybody on the planet. As of last Friday, Angeles Duran of Salvaterra do Mino, Spain, is the proud new owner of the Sun. Yes, that one.

The UK parliamentary elections are tomorrow, and the Conservative Party is taking over the news cycle with the blessing of reality TV celebrity and music mogul Simon Cowell. In a profile in The Sun which has been rapidly aggregated throughout UK media, Cowell endorsed Tory candidate David Cameron for Prime Minister and gave him a mandate to change the course of the country. It seems people across the pond take celebrity endorsements a little more seriously than we do, but then again, is there a celebrity that occupies the same cultural space as Cowell in America?

Holiday cheer is upon us and we should take this month-long opportunity to forget about the ills of the world. That, of course, includes the Death of Print. And those must’ve been the exact orders given to the advertising agency that delivered the precious, uplifting clip for The Sun, a Rupert Murdoch-owned UK paper, embedded inside.

Who knew that corrections pages could be so exciting? Backing off baseless allegations that gypsies sabotaged police helicopters and incorrect accusations that Teri Hatcher hosted “sex romps” in a VW camper is all in a year’s work for charmingly libelous British tabloid The Sun. And they’re more accurate than many British papers, somehow!