[Gllug] Surprised...

[Formi]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:

> This one time, at band camp, Sean Burlington wrote:
>
> > its not just IT that get reported badly - have you ever noticed how news
> > articles about things you know about are highly innacurate ?
> >
> > This seems to be a fairly general phenomena - you only pay attention to
> > news on subjects you don't know much about ...
>
> In fact, many newspapers make this an overt policy.
>
> A woman in Sydney was a qualified medical doctor and decided she
> wanted to change careers and become a journalist.  She went through
> the Sydney Morning Herald's (pompous, self-righeous tabloid in
> broadsheet format) cadetship programme (crap pay, menial work) and
> worked her way up to become a journalist.  When the paper's medical
> correspondent position came up, she was rejected due to her expertise
> because, obviously, that would make her "biased".
>
> Many newspapers also send foreign correspondents based on nepotism,
> graft and patronage, instead of expertise.  It's a junket to get
> posted overseas.  They often don't speak the language, live in the
> "foreigner" part of town and do little real news gathering beyond
> attending ambassadors' parties and press conferences.  You can always
> spot their copy in the newspaper: it reads just like the Reuters
> report you read a day previous.
>
> Wot me, cynical?
>

 You are a self-made Rev for nothing?

 Just joking.

> --
> Rev Simon Rumble <simon at rumble.net>
> www.rumble.net

  Formi.

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