the DT has been know as a a service paper for years but of late they have made a series of gaffs indicating a lost the knack of checking facts with someone who knows
Indeed, some of its efforts are very amateurish, some with serious security implications. I had reason to complain once about an article where they said, and I paraphrase, 'we aren't allowed to mention their real names so have changed them to protect the individuals'. All was going well until half way down a random name appeared in the interview, at which point it dawned on me they had accidentally included one of the real names. I complained, took them about 2 weeks to reply by which point the damage was done.
When I was in Helmand in 06, the CO said he only wanted journalists out there he could trust; the DT at that time was on his list. I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that their amateurism now represents a risk at times and we should no longer simply assume that the DT is a credible publication.