Some amazing reporting and production by the team over at The Atlanta-Journal-Constitution.
This in one to follow. First entry is jaw-dropping!
Jaw-dropping investigation
Monthly Archives: September 2019
Now they’re not even Rodney
No surprise here. I recall back in day when I was on the copy desk, newsroom editors tended to treat us with as little respect as they could muster, which is to say, not a whole lot.
I recall one editor claiming that he could find “anyone off the street” that could do our jobs.
Sheesh. Seems like copy editors were the Rodney Dangerfields of the newsroom and now they’re not even that.
Bad editing at the LA Times
Take a look at this article from the Los Angeles Times:
At first blush, one would think this is going to be about negative stories in newspapers… But not so, because way down in the story we find this:
“Each participant was shown seven randomly ordered BBC World News television reports, some of which had a negative tone and some of which were more positive.”
from the story
Good grief. Why run a photo of newspapers when the story is about TELEVISION — and only the BBC!
Hed, should have more correctly stated, “Why does so much TV news seem negative?”
or even, “Why does so much BBC World News TV news seem negative?”
You’ll never see a hed like this in the U.S. Gotta love the Irish!
At least not from a mainstream press site. Sort of refreshing, if you ask me.
Love the comics that include newspapers!
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