Saturday, March 10, 2007

Check your facts


Ziggy Marley back in Australia.

This was one of the headline news items on Nine-MSN this evening.

Obviously a very slow news day. So much so, that I decided to read the article.

Talk about misleading.

Here are some verbatim quotes from the Nine-MSN piece:

"...the Jamaican-born artist will bring his soulful tunes to Australia next month."

That's right, next month.

"...the 38-year-old told AAP from his home in California."

In California?

I don't care how hard up for news they are at Nine-MSN, there's no excuse for making stuff up just to fill space.

2 Comments:

Blogger David MacGregor said...

I don't know the blogging protocol for replying to a comment on one's own blog that is expressly intended for its author...so excuse this being irrelevant to the current post.

You remarked on my blog (ThoughSpurs) about how young people don't read newspapers. It reminded me of a post I had written in December (I hope you'll clean my cage...) about a speech to the English Association of Editors that explains why:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1945553,00.html

I'm sure you'll find it interesting

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