The issue of later start times is one we have been talking to our people about for months and has been accepted in 95% of our offices up and down the country," a spokesman added.
Hello! That's one of the main problems you silly bastard. As usual, "a spokesman" said..no names, fuckall, just an imaginery cnut from RM,with completely the wrong news reported
The breaking news/rolling news media culture we now have leads to this kind of reporting - only a cursory checking of the facts and firing off of news flashes is symptomatic of it. I suppose the problem is that people often just take the initial headline as the fact and any subsequent corrections and reporting don't have the same impact.
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News reporting is about "selling" your news and attracting readers/viewers. It's not about facts, at least not initially. The timescale is too short, if you're going to be the first to report a story. Even the BBC has to cope with market pressure. And there isn't time for a news reporter to go back and correct things, he has to move on to the next new thing. Unless someone organises clear, succinct and apt press releases for news writers, they'll do the best they can with the material available. There won't be balanced reporting until those people who write proper opinion columns have had time to investigate - as we've been seeing in articles published in the Times and the Guardian about the postal dispute recently.
jemima wrote:News reporting is about "selling" your news and attracting readers/viewers. It's not about facts, at least not initially.
You're quite right - I guess you remember 'Drop the Dead Donkey' and 'The Day Today' - Those two shows pretty much encapsulated the current state of the media.