How Accurate Are Newspapers
We all know that the content of the tabloid press is 90% a load of old tosh - but what about ‘proper’ articles in the broadsheets such as The Sunday Times ?
When I read editorials or the opinion based stuff then I take it all with a large pinch of salt, or cum grano salis for our more classical readers 
However, when I read something that is informational and has been researched etc I would presume it to be pretty accurate and representative of the subject.
This week I chanced across 2 articles in The Sunday Times which I happened to know quite a lot about (it had to happen one day) they were a factual disaster and incredibly inept.
Any reasonable amount of research would have provided them with the correct information to do a proper article - I can only assume it was very sloppy journalism.
Most of the people that read it would have taken it as gospel though - as a result they are now misinformed and ignorant on the subject.
Food for thought
Regards
Rod - cough atchoo !
Femme Fatale said,
March 27, 2007 @ 11:31 am
Rod
Another cold ? It must be the company you are keeping !
I have always been fully aware that the content of The News of The World are, as you put it, “a load of old tosh”, but to hear that the Sunday Times has now produced innacurate information must be causing your more cultured readers to have sleepless nights. I suggest that to combat this, they should pick up a tabloid, under the cover of darkness, read it in bed and be bored to sleep!!!!
Wrap up warm
Love
FF
xx
Jordan said,
March 27, 2007 @ 12:45 pm
Tabloids are all tosh, broad sheet, long sheet, little sheet! You are only ever reading someones elses views, opinions, no matter what you read. If i wish to read fiction i can grab a good novel. If i want to know fact i look out the window, believe only oneself and what your own eyes see.
WoE I think ‘clunk’ was ment. Lincolnshire Beefcakes!!!!!!!!!!!!! The only beefcake in Lincolnshire is the half cow SC puts between is slices of bread.
Rod said,
March 27, 2007 @ 5:18 pm
FF
It’s either the company I keep or the places I go - perhaps I should sit on a desert island under a palm tree for a month !
I personally like the tabloid press for the most part.
This Sunday I saw 2 newspapers The Sunday Times and The News of the World.
The Times neither educated nor entertained me - the NOTW was at least entertaining.
Rodent
Rod said,
March 27, 2007 @ 5:21 pm
Jordan,
there’s a lot to be said for your statement, believing only what one sees or experiences first hand.
All of the papers are crap ! Waste of good trees.
If anyone wants things of interest to read then visit this site or buy a novel from me
Slainte
Redaneleye
Rod said,
March 27, 2007 @ 6:01 pm
Jordan
The only beefcake in Lincolnshire is the half cow……….
What about this handsome swine
Perhaps you’re right after all !
Little Brother said,
March 27, 2007 @ 8:15 pm
Rod,
Seen more beef on a chilli nachos! (Oxford circa 1991)
LB
Rod said,
March 28, 2007 @ 7:57 am
LB
what a memory you have, and you’re right of course, more scrag end than fillet!