Comments on: The best piece of Bad Journalism debunking I’ve ever seen http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2011/11/24/the-best-piece-of-bad-journalism-debunking-ive-ever-seen/ A conversation. Mon, 21 May 2012 12:30:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Watchdogs for the watchdogs | mitchellsmore http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2011/11/24/the-best-piece-of-bad-journalism-debunking-ive-ever-seen/#comment-372555 Watchdogs for the watchdogs | mitchellsmore Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:46:42 +0000 http://onlinejournalismblog.com/?p=15444#comment-372555 [...] encourage you to have a look at this “bad journalism debunking” from England. It serves as a lesson to all aspiring journalists that accuracy and research is [...] [...] encourage you to have a look at this “bad journalism debunking” from England. It serves as a lesson to all aspiring journalists that accuracy and research is [...]

]]> By: A. R. http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2011/11/24/the-best-piece-of-bad-journalism-debunking-ive-ever-seen/#comment-232541 A. R. Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:40:24 +0000 http://onlinejournalismblog.com/?p=15444#comment-232541 This may not be the place for this - but I am livid. Yet today, once more, again, the yellow, yellow journalist who writes for the local newspaper has posted an editorial piece. Here you have a guy who writes specifically to titillate, then gives sketchy reports, with nothing, nothing in-depth, as he could well do, making it seem as though - shrug of shoulders -- that's the way it went - -THEN, the @@#!! writes an editorial in which he completely attacks what he saw, and that which he under-reported. High emotion - the whole bit. So, the thing is - apart from the fact that this guy should not be allowed to report on local government-related news unless he were to do the damn job right - where the hell is his Managing Editor in this? How can he conscience the deliberate bad reporting -- and the always-predicatble slam-dunk that the reporter executes after the fact as his personal opinion? sonofabitch! This may not be the place for this – but I am livid. Yet today, once more, again, the yellow, yellow journalist who writes for the local newspaper has posted an editorial piece. Here you have a guy who writes specifically to titillate, then gives sketchy reports, with nothing, nothing in-depth, as he could well do, making it seem as though – shrug of shoulders — that’s the way it went – -THEN, the @@#!! writes an editorial in which he completely attacks what he saw, and that which he under-reported. High emotion – the whole bit.

So, the thing is – apart from the fact that this guy should not be allowed to report on local government-related news unless he were to do the damn job right – where the hell is his Managing Editor in this? How can he conscience the deliberate bad reporting — and the always-predicatble slam-dunk that the reporter executes after the fact as his personal opinion? sonofabitch!

]]> By: Neurobonkers http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2011/11/24/the-best-piece-of-bad-journalism-debunking-ive-ever-seen/#comment-211366 Neurobonkers Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:44:42 +0000 http://onlinejournalismblog.com/?p=15444#comment-211366 I don't think I've ever been more flattered :-) Thanks! I should add that the article has just been removed following a complaint to the Press Complaints Commission. The <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/children-at-risk-as-pocket-money-heroin-hits-the-streets-2370924.html" rel="nofollow">Independent</a> and the <a href="http://www.metro.co.uk/news/878558-new-danger-drug-selling-for-50p-a-pill-is-lapped-up-by-british-teenagers" rel="nofollow">Metro</a> have both since published similar stories - it'll be interesting to see how they respond.. I don’t think I’ve ever been more flattered :-) Thanks!

I should add that the article has just been removed following a complaint to the Press Complaints Commission. The Independent and the Metro have both since published similar stories – it’ll be interesting to see how they respond..

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