I’ve done another post on Conal which’ll upload in the morning.

Interesting point, though: “testimony” from every “eye-witness”? We at SpringHillVoice who are subjected to this poor excuse for journalism asked a few questions: To whom did they ‘testify’? Isn’t it the case that you got this story from something a police officer told you that someone had told them? Wouldn’t that be “second hand hearsay speculation from an unidentified third party subsequently denied by police”, rather than something as weighty as “testimony”? And, “how does something a cop told your cadet on the scene qualify as talking to those lying eyewitnesses?”

Keep up the good work, but please try not to link to the punchdrunkfunk. Please?

“Where do we go from here? Can journalists take anyone at face value anymore? Do we need to verify every eyewitness we speak to? What do you think?”

YES! That’s what’s supposed to differentiate you from, I don’t know, a tape recorder.

Thank you Megan – I’ve posted on it at Pure Poison. There may be a post here after dinner, too.

Sometimes, when a whimsical mood strikes me, I have conversations with friends and relatives about things that aren’t directly related to my day to day activities, like clouds and politics and cool things that ants do and who I’d execute if I was Emperor and problems with that movie’s plot and what a bunch of tossers pollies are and how a 4 stroke engine works and holy crap look at that news item and christ the media report science badly and obviously Alexander was Macedonian but also a bit of a no-talent prat and, well, lots of stuff. Conversations are part of life and humans often enjoy them, even if they don’t have the weight of divine sanction that paid written content apparently has, and even if the people speaking are often reasonably ignorant of the subject (conversations occasionally being a method of discovering and combatting such ignorance).

When people realise that blogs are just people having conversations, only on teh intarnets!!@1, we might not have all this hand wringing.

JUST BECAUSE IT’S IN WRITING DOESN’T MEAN IT’S MAGIC.

As long as News outlets push their commercial barrows through their publications, they are fair game for criticism, just as any other company can be held to account for its statements and activities.

What, you want to put the whole media naval gazing industry out of business!!

Think of all the effort wasted on media topic naval gazing!

PS: The sooner they disappear behind a paywall the better.