Post by PitYak Studios on Feb 25, 2007 9:43:09 GMT 12
One thing I really hate (one of many, regular readers will no doubt realise) is bad journalism. Whether it's slanted biased reporting or just lazy poorly researched writing they are just as bad in my book. Newsmen have a responsibility to live up to, and they should really do so. This falls into the second category; not exactly damaging or hateful, but pretty damn sloppy.
This collossal squid that was caught the other day. Everyone is obsessed with how big the rings would be if it was sliced up into calamari. The marine scientist whose name I forget, a world authority on marine life and squid and octopus in particular, summed it up nicely when interviewed by refusing to answer the question, saying instead he found it ridiculous to be equating an awe inspiring beast of the depths about which we know virtually nothing with cuisine.
Yesterdays Dominion had a story about the leviathin, complete with artists impression and picture of diver to scale, plus the obligatory "5 things you didn't know about the collosal squid". This in itself smacks of amateurish tabloid journalsim, when in fact we know essentially nothing about these creatures, but guess what number one was? "If made into calamari..."
The rest of the facts were equally pedestrian, but number 5 took the biscuit for late-friday-afternoon-shit-i've-only-thought-of-four-and-deadline-is-looming writing.
I'm off before I blow a fuse!
This collossal squid that was caught the other day. Everyone is obsessed with how big the rings would be if it was sliced up into calamari. The marine scientist whose name I forget, a world authority on marine life and squid and octopus in particular, summed it up nicely when interviewed by refusing to answer the question, saying instead he found it ridiculous to be equating an awe inspiring beast of the depths about which we know virtually nothing with cuisine.
Yesterdays Dominion had a story about the leviathin, complete with artists impression and picture of diver to scale, plus the obligatory "5 things you didn't know about the collosal squid". This in itself smacks of amateurish tabloid journalsim, when in fact we know essentially nothing about these creatures, but guess what number one was? "If made into calamari..."
The rest of the facts were equally pedestrian, but number 5 took the biscuit for late-friday-afternoon-shit-i've-only-thought-of-four-and-deadline-is-looming writing.
5. It's penis may be the size of a man, but we don't know since noone has ever seen one of these before.
I'm off before I blow a fuse!
