On the other hand
Posted on Dec 05 2006 | Tagged as: Media, The Stupid
Probably the most apposite thing that Rodney Pinder from the News Safety Institute said in his guest lecture a few weeks ago was that even when covering such frivolities as celebrities falling out of taxis, accurate reporting is essential in order to maintain public trust in journalism (if there’s any left to maintain).
Having looked at further reporting of the story that prompted this post, it might not be quite as easy to defend my chosen profession as I previously thought.
Read the Basingstoke Gazette’s appalling coverage of the death of Exeter student Gavin Britton. Then read his friends’ - justifiably outraged - comments at the bottom.
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