Journalists - Ignorant, lazy or stupid?

[ianpearson]

Originally posted by Morris 1100
Last night one of the TV stations in Aus said that Silverstone was the site of the very first ever Grand Prix ...

I think it was the host of the first "world championship" grand prix in 1950.

The problem is that if someone tries to talk about a subject you know a lot about & they know a lot less then you, you will be able to tair them apart like toilet paper.

The worrying thing is like Nordic said is when we take something for gospal in a paper/news cause we know no better when it probably is in fact complete paff.

Next time your on the sick for a few days watch the news, you'll find the same reporters being labeled as experts in feilds as diverse as child vacinations, world politics to desert warfare stratergy! over the period of a few days. now thats multi talented

[touringcarnut]

The papers are full of mistakes, when they report on 'your area' of interest, its quite disburbing how inaccurately that things are reported.

It just makes you wonder how much of the other stuff that you might not be so well informed about is actually correct!

[Led ZeppF1]

I'm a journalist (not F1 journalist).

And yes, sometime I am ignorant, lazy or stupid. But usually I am concern, hard-working, and brilliant.

So, please don't make the generalisation about the behaviour of the journalist.