Should there be some sort of exam where journalists have to display even a rudimentary grasp of statistics before they are allowed to go around journalling all over the place? I have just been reading this piece from the Telegraph about people taking sick days.
Entries Tagged as 'Newspapers'
On reading (or not reading) newspapers
December 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Technology
Another passage from the book Viral Loop, which rang some bells with me:
Tags: Books·Newspapers
The fog of (price) war
December 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Life, Technology
I think I have found the year’s least readable newspaper story. It is from the Guardian and all about Vodafone’s forthcoming deals on iPhones. The first section is OK, and Vodafone will be happy that their PR line about it not being a price war but a network quality war got included. After that it [...]
Tags: Language·Newspapers
Elf n Safety gone mad
December 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
In the local paper this week there is an article by Francis Maude, complaining about the “burden” of health and safety. I think most sensible people know that having protection against serious injury or death at work is a good thing – although most employers will recognise that it can be expensive, which is why [...]
Tags: Health and Safety·Newspapers
Can Dec anally match Ant?
September 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Life
A question we have all pondered, but not dared to voice aloud… see the Guardian for an explanation of exactly why and how the Express ended up with such an eye-catching headline. It turns out there is a perfectly logical explanation – they cocked up!
Tags: Doh!·Newspapers·WTF
The Coulson Caper
July 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
Whatever the rights and wrongs, and whatever really happened, I suspect the Tories will escape from all this. Unless…
…it turns out that Joanna Lumley’s phone was tapped. In no time she would be button-holing the DPP and getting him to change his mind.
Tags: Newspapers·Scandals
Belated appreciation
June 19th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Politics
For the last month or so I have had the feeling that the Daily Telegraph has been getting far too much attention and praise for a simple act of chequebook journalism. The way I saw it, their exclusives on MPs’ expenses were not the result of investigations but just from having been willing to fork [...]
Tags: Expenses·Greed·Newspapers
Portmanteau cliches
May 12th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Life
One phrase keeps turning up in all the coverage of the latest tranche of expense abuses – “Tory Grandee”. Why is it always “Tory Grandee”, “Union Baron” and “Oil Magnate”?
Tags: Language·Newspapers
OMG Hitler invades Poland
March 31st, 2009 · No Comments · Life
If only this was true… I might have time to actually read the paper if all the stories were only 140 characters long.
I suspect this statistic will outlive the story and by next month will be quoted as fact all over the world.
Currently, 17.8% of all Twitter traffic in the United Kingdom consists of status [...]
Tags: Funny·Newspapers
Ulrika-ka-ka-ka
January 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Life
I don’t watch Celebrity Big Brother, although it surely has the edge on the non-celebrity version by not going on for so many months, but I did see the news today that Ulrika won it. Yesterday I was enjoying a bacon sandwich in the cafe and saw Ulrika on the front page of a Daily [...]
Tags: Newspapers·TV
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