Dale's Weblog

I just love journalism.

It is really quite funny to watch the media deliberately beef up stories in an aim to increase emotion and sympathy just to get a better story. My crappy news reader (which I am learning to like ;)) decides to think there is a new item when ever the title of the article changes so I get all the Sydney Morning Heralds old titles a long with there "better" versions. It has happened on a number of different times. Let me find some examples:

Greek sprinters unhurt, changes to Greek sprint champ out which then changes to Greek sprinter quits Games (remember this is the same article which just a different title).

Aussies heads for finals (yes that wording) changed to Australia heads for finals with win over China (yes the grammar was wrong so this should have been changed)

Drug test costs her gold to Russian denied gold after positive test

Robbins ’threatened’ by teammates to Robbins: I was threatened and then back to the first one.

*sigh* and the list goes on. Maybe it is just that their editor doesn’t read things before they are published. I don’t know, I just find it funny.

So it isn’t all that interesting but hey!