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Post by sacko on Jan 25, 2007 22:42:22 GMT 10
It is one of Ruperts rags so what did you expect!  |
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Post by marinerbhoy on Jan 25, 2007 22:55:20 GMT 10
Quoting the forum is a dangerous place to go, but was done in reasonable taste on this occasion. I still don't agree with it though. Picking out the worst and printing it is an easy way to falsely 'represent the fans' and destroy the credibility of the rest of us. It would be like asking people what they thought as they walked out of the stadium and using only what the drunkest dickhead said, but on the forum people are totally anonymous and unaccountable. Any individual can NOT be used to represent any more than one 10,000th of the supporter base, and that is when they aren't a troll. There is a trend in modern journalism to take the easy way out. Quoting from the forum is a real journalistic short cut and saves the journo from going out an meeting and interviewing flesh-and-blood people. It's like a student writing an assignment using Wikipedia! It may be ok for a one-off article, but how easy would it be for this journo to do the same again next time. (you see the same thing on tv when news organisations report what other news organisations are saying about certain stories rather than investigating the story themselves). I agree that this particular headline misleads the reader as to the content of the article, which wasn't as bad as it suggests. wikipedia never ok for students, even for one-offs. the use of wikipedia is an instant fail in the reseach and foot-noting criteria, which pretty much mean you fail your work |
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