on 06-02-2015 07:49 AM
What is it with some Journos ?
We know the standards of journalism have gone down but yesterday we had Ben Fordham tweeting a completley false tweet
that Julie Bishop and Malcolm Turnbull were going to get together for a "SECRET" meeting. He continued to push the point
in the afternoon even though he knew full well Turnbull was in one part of NSW and Bishop in another and even knew what
flight she was on.
They spin more than politicians
I thought they were supposed to Report the news, not be part of it.
John Laws on the phone to Tim Cahill
Then you have John Laws on the phone to Tim Cahill, with plenty of interesting things to discuss, Winning the Cup, the new
club he is going to, Soccer in Aus etc etc but all he can do is focus on the reported $10 million deal Tim has signed.
Like how about discussing something that soccer fans want to hear about, Why the new club, why not the A league.
And then you only have to get onto aircraft accidents and crashes and supposed "experts" they have on TV or quote
in the media. Plus the standard "the brave pilot heroically steered the aircraft away from the school which had children playing in the playground" or "The selfless pilot stayed at the controls until the last minute to steer away from the town" or , followed by a picture of a Cessna when they state it was a Beechcraft or a 4 engined Boeing 747 when it was a
two engines Airbus A300 which they actually state in the article
In the past, it might have taken a while to research and put together something but with everything on line,
it takes 5 seconds to cross check in google or find the correct picture to use.
Anyway, rant over.
06-02-2015 08:19 AM - edited 06-02-2015 08:23 AM
I have very little time for Laws, but I heard the interview, twice. Laws replayed it when one emailer (Lyndal?) complained.
He did not focus on the money, he referenced to the headlines in the news about the money (in a polite way) and continued with a long conversation about the athlete and his sport, praising him in the process. Cahill obviously had got up on the wrong side of the bed, because it was like extracting teeth. Cahill hung up on Laws, for no reason. Very rude.
LIsten for yourself, and take note of the calibre of the second caller. Same mindset writing to the newsrag.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyuK7ABUrhc
I occasionally listen to Laws, because he has some pulling power, although not as much as he once did, and that interests me. Keating once said, "Educate Laws and you educate the country". It was true at the time.
on 06-02-2015 08:39 AM
By the way, neither Forham nor Laws are journalists.
on 06-02-2015 08:40 AM
I thought Laws was dead. Never listened to him anyway.
As far as sloppy journalism goes, such as wrong pictures, that has probably something to to do with all the drastic staff cuts. They chuck in a pic of a plane, just to make sure that people know what plane looks like, any plane will do. 🙂 More embarrassing is when they use a photo of a wrong person. Especially when they talk about paedophiles or criminals etc. and show a photo of innocent person. But when you have some junior staff member doing the proofreading and being told they are not fast enough, such stuff ups will happen.
on 06-02-2015 08:46 AM
Interesting considering he has won a Walkey award (Fordham that is).
06-02-2015 08:46 AM - edited 06-02-2015 08:49 AM
you'll find they all do it. Sharri Markson and the Australian newspaper are the worst. She watches what everyone else says and writes stories about them. It;'s how Mike Carlton lost his job, Sharri Markson and Miranda Devine wrote stories about what he said but not what was said to him and why. so they didn't tell the whole story
I see your article is from the same company of newspapers, and once again their story is about what another journalist did or said on twitter...... big news not
ben Fordham probably trying to break the story as they all do. Turnbull and Abbott have met, but not on that day
I thought it was kind of funny that Malcolm Turnbull kept posting pics of himself all day from other locations with a big smile on his face
on 06-02-2015 08:50 AM
Deb
But his "story" was about Bishop and Turnbull.
Anyway, I was going to write a line saying that right wing journos are the worst at it
06-02-2015 08:51 AM - edited 06-02-2015 08:53 AM
oh that;s right I had something else on my mind that i just read.
Julie Bishop was also posting pics of herself from other locations and smiling
I mean seriously how is it news what another journo says or does..
on 06-02-2015 08:58 AM
Agree.
I thought they were smiling because they were sticking it up Ben Fordham for being so wrong.
on 06-02-2015 08:59 AM
here's some more from twitter
When the Labor leadership changed hands from Kevin Rudd to Julia Gillard in June 2010, the federal Coalition had plenty to say about it on social media, but senior Liberals may now be finding that some of their scathing comments could apply equally to the leadership scrap embroiling them now.