On 24-3-2015 10:33, Stephen wrote:
> On 24/03/2015 08:19, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> On 23-3-2015 19:50, Stephen wrote:
>
>>> In a way Nekar is right. We, as taxpayers, are the investors.
>>> Years ago I worked in the Newspaper industry. I have a very low opinion
>>> of most journalists. They will write anything to get a byline.
>>>
>>>
>> Hmm, yes and no. My father was a journalist, working in the foreign
>> politics and arts branch. He was extremely critical about truth finding
>> and so was very critical about many of his colleagues. In the course of
>> the years I have met a wide lot of them and I must say that most were
>> honest. However, the example by Nekar is typically one were the
>> journalist did not know what he was writing about and only picked up a
>> couple of catch calls he heard somewhere and wrote around it; or -
>> current practice - the title did not refer to the content at all, which
>> becomes obvious when you know that titles are not made by the journalist
>> himself but by the layout staff.
>>
>
> True but we are talking about different generations.
> Nowadays if you don't work in "the city" the next best thing is working
> in "the media". There are so many of them that they struggle to keep to
> the realms of reality in their quest to have an original slant on it.
> Although I do have a sneaking desire to see a pink unicorn. ;-)
>

Yes, I suppose that is true although the old 'Fleet Street' probably was 
not always as honest as we might suppose. The temptation to announce a 
pink unicorn scoop can have been to great to refuse. ;-)

-- 
Thomas

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