‘But no-one believes the Sun…’
That's churnalism for you, the unquestioning ctrl+C and ctrl+V of information, be it truthful, or be it utter bollocks, as we discovered through the Glen Jenvey saga.
As Sim-O also points out, the 'but no-one believes the Sun' argument is a load of old cock. Do the readers believe the TV guide tells you what programmes are on at what time? Hell yes. Do they believe the football fixtures are at the correct times? Of course. So do they believe what they read in the news section? Hell yes, or they wouldn't have bought the fucking thing in the first place. It's not a bit of fun for blokes in white vans; a hell of a lot of people genuinely believe it, especially when it's passed on unchecked through a source that's perhaps more trusted than the Currant.
And again today: the Sun today has come out with some shit about the Black Death killing some Muslim militants. Is it true? Who the fuck knows. But the BBC have decided to run a story about the Plague anyway in their science section. Why not analyse whether the Sun's story was true in the first place instead? Ah, but that would take far longer...
No-one believes the Sun? Everyone believes everyone when you've got a deadline to hit and neither the resources nor the time to check the facts.
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January 21st, 2009 - 08:40
As I often defend my employers on various right-wing-wingnut blogs I suppose I should do it here too.
Frank Gardner sent all BBC journalists a message saying that his contacts in Algeria believed the black death story to be a load of old guff.
That doesn’t preclude the website editors from choosing to write about an issue that is topical by the virtue of its appearance on the front of a national newspaper…