Wednesday, 6 August 2008

Note to the "journo" whose story I just spent 15 minutes re-writing:

1. It is not okay to copy and paste an entire story from a press release. Journalism 101.

2. Especially when part of that press release is plugging someone's business.

3. Names have CAPITAL LETTERS.

4. You can't spell a politician's name "Shenton" in the title and "Shorten" in the article.

5. Go back to England. Oh, you are. How fortuitous.

3 comments:

Steve said...

:-) My pet hate, Journo's printing spin dcotors media releases word for word.

shiny said...

My pet hate: journos who ask what a press release is about instead of reading it.

Anonymous said...

Oh Dave you are evil!.... but that's why I like you!