tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post6331082653423577253..comments2024-03-28T14:29:18.183+00:00Comments on A K Haart: ChurnalismA K Haarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-20317680392814478622013-01-25T20:16:56.489+00:002013-01-25T20:16:56.489+00:00James - I scan stories, but as you say it's qu...James - I scan stories, but as you say it's quite a job sorting through the junk.<br /><br />Roger - I don't know how the Beeb gets away with all the plugs, but as you say, that's how things are. <br /><br />Demetrius - I wonder if that's because all the copy and paste folk are fresh out of some dud university with a degree in media studies? A K Haarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-35695815208106177862013-01-25T14:22:26.301+00:002013-01-25T14:22:26.301+00:00I have noted that a lot of science things in main ...I have noted that a lot of science things in main media seem to be from Science Daily. And often not really understood if you then bother to go back to first source.Demetriushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17198549581667363991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-90402579943796303242013-01-25T14:10:16.049+00:002013-01-25T14:10:16.049+00:00R4 is a treat on this one. Cue 'expert' d...R4 is a treat on this one. Cue 'expert' droning on about some novelty and lo and behold they get in a plug for their new book. Then you hear some quite interesting piece and find it trawled everywhere - the book of the play of the film of the talk of the ..... Then you get the crackpot professor from an obscure overseas university expounding some unlikely theory - I reckon they run it up the flagpole here first in case too many folk laugh at home. Media - another word for incest.<br /><br />All newspapers put PR puffs on the spike for a slow-news day. The PR game used to run on booze, canapes and fluttering eyelashes, now much harder and the bloggers and tweeters are in on the game. Believe nothing until it has been denied three times. <br /><br />Consultancy, academe and the conference circuit has turned into corporate entertainment. You have to look pretty hard to find anything worthy of the word "information".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-70615571446344268302013-01-25T07:24:44.219+00:002013-01-25T07:24:44.219+00:00Even in blogging this is a problem. I get roughly...Even in blogging this is a problem. I get roughly 35-40 articles a day come through to my email and from that, three of the six posts or so a day are made.<br /><br />Most of those being sent are churnalism regurgitated, some are pure gold and that's why it has to be skim-read.<br /><br />It's an absolute flood. Some of that even seeps into the blog and a couple of people have questioned "filler" posts. Even though there are no "filler" posts intended, the journalistic blight out there does seep through.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.com