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"Teeafit" <teeafit@teeafit.co.uk> wrote:
> As an ex-employee of the Bent Bucket Corporation, you need to know that
> there are 2 main types of employees -- a) those who lovingly craft
> programmes, and b) journalists.
>
> The former will give due consideration to what will present the
> appropriate ethos to their production. I've not yet seen 'Torchwood',
> but I expect I'll find a vehicle which conveys an amalgamation of
> practicality, versatility and 'future-ness'.
>
> Journalists, on the other hand, exist purely to scoop others, and not
> be scooped themselves. Therefore they jump onto any bandwagon in order
> to show not only that they too are across the mainstream, but they have
> to find a new and exclusive twist to prove that they are actually AHEAD
> of the pack.
>
> So don't worry -- I doubt that the Beeb is instutionally biased against
> 4x4 vehicles, but it's just fashionable to be so. It would only take
> one boffin to come up with impeccable research to prove that small
> silver front-wheel-drive cars are the biggest known menace to the
> natterjack toad, and pensioners across the land would become the object
> of hate mail instead.
>
> I experienced this at first hand when a colleague from the newsroom
> asked me to come up with a possible farmer contact to give a local
> twist to a story in the Daily Mail. When I said that, as the spouse of
> a farmer, I could spin a contrary tale, the reporter nearly wet himself
> with glee -- could I come up with an ALTERNATIVE contact instead, who
> would be able to prove the Daily Mail was wrong!
>
> I call it the 'Rottweiler Syndrome' -- have you ever noticed that it
> only takes one Rottweiler to (tragically) savage a child for there to
> be 4 similar stories over the next fortnight. Then it all goes quiet.
> No, the Rottweilers haven't suddenly discovered how to be pussycats --
> it's just that it's not fasionable to go looking for Rottweiler
> stories.
>
> GRAEME ALDOUS
> Yorkshire
>
All of which puts journalists in a rather bad light, to say the
least. I know they are "just doing their job"[1], but that doesn't
sit well with constant cries of "in the public interest" when
they've overstepped the mark, or get it hopelessly wrong.
Still, that's the modern world I suppose - personaly I stopped
taking journaslists seriously when the The Times ceased making
a clear distinction between the factual content of a report,
and the opinion - it might not have been the most interesting
read, but it was the news.
Richard
[1] somewhat debatable, as if they don't present all points of
view equally then what is the point of their job, other than
to entertain - which isn't journalism!
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