Annoyingly lazy journalisim

[GMLS]

Is it just me that gets really irritated by this sort of journalism?

Woman left fighting for life after dolphin bites through her foot

Claire Bye, 28, was swimming in a river in Santa Rosa de Yacuma, Bolivia, when a pink river dolphin suddenly sunk its teeth into her right foot

www.independent.co.uk

Including the heading, the fact her foot nearly gets bitten off is mentioned 4 times in 4 paragraphs!

 

[ChrisL]

Is it just me that gets really irritated by this sort of journalism?

Woman left fighting for life after dolphin bites through her foot

Claire Bye, 28, was swimming in a river in Santa Rosa de Yacuma, Bolivia, when a pink river dolphin suddenly sunk its teeth into her right foot

www.independent.co.uk

Including the heading, the fact her foot nearly gets bitten off is mentioned 4 times in 4 paragraphs!

What's more irritating for me is that some people think it's a good idea to "play" with any wild animals let alone allow their children to do it, what humans think of as play may be really annoying to a wild animal, even domesticated animals get upset with humans sometimes.

 

[andykim]

Oh dear

 

[RedFrame]

Oh dear

Oh Dear What?...

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Cheers
Red.

 

[RidersofRohan]

I think journalism died in the early noughties. When I worked in Leeds for the bus company from 1997 onwards I saw it at first hand. The Yorkshire Post covered the Yorkshire region in the morning and the Yorkshire Evening Post was really the Leeds evening paper. They had a huge circulation and managed to carry a large team of journalists, they even had a “Transport Correspondent” as a result whatever the bus company did was big news. I dreaded his phone call, the guy was well informed, polite and friendly but you had to be so careful if you didn’t want your words appearing magically before your eyes that evening. You just had to accept that fare increases, service changes, passenger complaints would feed generally negative stories so we tried to feed them other stories such as new buses, investment, human interest stories etc to try and balance it off. But they wrote the story you just had to hope they had enough balance.
Staffing levels reduced as circulation dropped amazingly quickly, the Transport Correspondent was no more, that didn’t necessarily help as staff reporters could misunderstand intentionally sometimes I think. But It got eventually that you sent them press releases, they invented ridiculous headlines, wrote a few opening sentences then copied and pasted the press notice virtually word for word. They were still filling two newspapers per day and took whatever short cuts were necessary to do so (in my opinion).
There are of course loads of media jobs today, but journalists who cut their teeth on the regional local papers are few and far between and the standard is so poor. Investigation is non existent, facts are few, it’s just padding to fill up the spaces.

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[Kups]

Wholly agree. I've had many years of dealing with local papers which usually carry 90% bad news to catch attention. Good news doesn't sell or keep the advertisers happy. The standard of journalism in our national newspapers is pretty poor these days even The Times under Murdoch and more recently his editor Tony Gallagher who edited The Sun from 2015 to 2022. Sadly The Times is more like The Sun with every month that passes. Readers regularly vent their spleens at the poor and often lazy journalism in this august newspaper.

 

[andykim]

Oh Dear What?...

Did you press the wrong button? Is there more to come?

Cheers
Red.

Getting your foot almost bitten off by a dolphin