Extraordinary sloppy journalism
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In today's Sun, page 33 fwiw, there's an article about some unfortunate chap stuffing his new KTM X-Bow unceremoniously into the much feared Nordschleife armco. If they can spell Nordschleife, why then describe the X-Bow as a 200mph supercar? Seen any other clangers lately?
Edited by JayKaybi on Saturday 27th September 12:20
AndrewTait said:
The sun is the only paper to make the lot I work for seem reasonable. (Think piece of glass you hang on the wall to see your reflection! 
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You reckon? How about the Daily Star, that's a good indicator of what is not true, if it's printed in the Star then one assumes it is a complete fabrication until proven otherwise... Or the Sport, which isn't a newspaper at all, it's a porn mag printed on newspaper paper...)I remember about 10 ago there was a Brit on death-row in the US.
Blair n Co were trying to stop the electrocution from going ahead.
It was almost certainly going to happen but at the last minute it got cancelled but this was in the early hours of the morning British time.
I saw in more than one paper 'exclusives' giving specific details of how this person had died in the electric chair and even stating that the lights flicked as it happened!
Obviously deciding that it was going to happen they decided to just make up the whole story, must have felt like complete spakkers afterwards.
Not that it stops them doing it again!
Blair n Co were trying to stop the electrocution from going ahead.
It was almost certainly going to happen but at the last minute it got cancelled but this was in the early hours of the morning British time.
I saw in more than one paper 'exclusives' giving specific details of how this person had died in the electric chair and even stating that the lights flicked as it happened!
Obviously deciding that it was going to happen they decided to just make up the whole story, must have felt like complete spakkers afterwards.
Not that it stops them doing it again!
Every time I read a newspaper story where I know the actual truth, the story is always factually incorrect. Usually, it is so far from the truth as to be laughable. It is therefore difficult for me to take anything in the papers ("quality" or otherwise) seriously. When an FT journalist tells me he will print something he knows to be untrue because he cannot attribute a quote to my organisation, you realise that there isn't much integrity around in the profession.
AstonZagato said:
Every time I read a newspaper story where I know the actual truth, the story is always factually incorrect. Usually, it is so far from the truth as to be laughable. It is therefore difficult for me to take anything in the papers ("quality" or otherwise) seriously. When an FT journalist tells me he will print something he knows to be untrue because he cannot attribute a quote to my organisation, you realise that there isn't much integrity around in the profession.
I have observed exactly the same thing and draw the same conclusions.Gassing Station | The Pie & Piston Archive | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff