Popular Post AngryTechnician Posted September 16, 2009 Popular Post Posted September 16, 2009 BBC has a story this morning about how the 'bonus culture' is supposedly entering schools. However, in typical BBC editorial fashion (i.e. "Proofreading? Wot's than then?"), they have made a somewhat ridiculous blunder in stating (twice) that: "Some school governing bodies have advertised five figure salaries to attract good candidates to run schools" FIVE FIGURE SALARIES?! HOW DARE THEY! 5
Pottsey Posted September 16, 2009 Posted September 16, 2009 You have to love the BBC's way of reporting. How dare they pay headteachers 5 figures salaries! Why we should pay them 4 figures salaries max.
Martin Posted September 16, 2009 Posted September 16, 2009 Fixed, but without changing the "last update" time. More unprofessional behaviour by the BBC mb
Martin Posted September 16, 2009 Posted September 16, 2009 Actually only one of the "five"s had been changed! mb
dgsmith Posted September 16, 2009 Posted September 16, 2009 Actually only one of the "five"s had been changed! mb Good spot - under the image!
AngryTechnician Posted September 16, 2009 Author Posted September 16, 2009 Fixed, but without changing the "last update" time. More unprofessional behaviour by the BBC I would say you can't expect quality journalism from any news source that posts articles anonymously. Most BBC News articles are completely uncredited.
Martin Posted September 16, 2009 Posted September 16, 2009 I would say you can't expect quality journalism from any news source that posts articles anonymously. Most BBC News articles are completely uncredited. Worse than that, some are just copy-and-pastes from Wikipedia mb 1
kearton Posted September 16, 2009 Posted September 16, 2009 Worse than that, some are just copy-and-pastes from Wikipedia :rolleyes how about we (read: edugeek regulars) create some bogus info somewhere on wikipedia (presumably about UK education?) and see if we can get it to appear in a BBC article?
oxide54 Posted September 16, 2009 Posted September 16, 2009 how about we (read: edugeek regulars) create some bogus info somewhere on wikipedia (presumably about UK education?) and see if we can get it to appear in a BBC article? what about underpaid network managers' oh no they would never go for that its factual!
Soulfish Posted September 16, 2009 Posted September 16, 2009 I would say you can't expect quality journalism from any news source that posts articles anonymously. Most BBC News articles are completely uncredited. In general I agree with this, but the one exception I know of is The Economist news paper, where for the vast majority of articles they don't actually print a byline.
mortstar Posted September 16, 2009 Posted September 16, 2009 (edited) I would say you can't expect quality journalism from any news source that posts articles anonymously. Most BBC News articles are completely uncredited. Erm, Private Eye has probably the best journalism in the UK. (imo of course) Edited September 16, 2009 by mortstar
GrumbleDook Posted September 17, 2009 Posted September 17, 2009 Private Eye do a crackin job when you consider they all only work part time. One week they sit round doing bugger all and the other they slog their guts out on high quality investigative journalism ... and a fair chunk of that is investigating journalists themselves. Anyone that pokes fun at journos gets a thumbs up in my book. A good number of hacks are only a few steps above lawyers! (there are notable exceptions ... especially in tech and education ...)
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