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Serious news
This is the age of the internet where anyone can report a funny story on their blog, but only real news agencies can cover serious news properly. If we can’t go to real news agencies for serious news stories, where can we go?
I wrote that. On today’s Failnews post.
The death of news credibility
Avi Muchnick writes an interesting article on the decline of news credibility as many news agencies make the transition from print to web.
Ratings are driven by attracting as large an audience as possible… and most people care more about Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s married life than how many people vanished from a Darfur town this week (hint: all [...]
News is Shit #7: Tree frog found alive in packet of spinach
Busy news day.
A green tree frog narrowly avoided becoming lunch to an unsuspecting shopper after finding its way into a packet of spinach.
The woman was unpacking her groceries when she spotted the Eastern Dwarf Tree Frog and quickly freed it from its plastic prison.
Now appropriately named Popeye, the frog was rushed to Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary’s [...]
WARNING WARNING- DO NOT ADD STORIES TO THIS SECTION
They will not appear - if you want things to appear on the Opinion section of the website, put them into the top-level columnists section. Stupid, isn’t it?
News is Shit #6: Torrens is drying up. Cars removed.
Now, I’m sure as a journo you’ve got to be selective with who you interview, and what parts of that interview you choose to quote directly in your article. This is why I find the following quote from this article staggering.
“There was one car that’s been in there for, they reckon, 12 years, so basically now that [...]
