Earlier this year Adbrite raised $8 million from Sequoia Capital and founder Philip Kaplan stepped aside as CEO. Philip writes about how journalists twisted the story to make it seem more dramatic than it really was. The really interesting part of his post is when he talks about running FuckedCompany.com a few years ago, and being in a postition of being both a journalist (behind the camera) as well as a story (in front of the camera). This is a good post, bloggers and other journalists should read it.
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Reminds me of the quote: “journalists say a thing they know isn’t true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true”
That was Goebbels, Nik.
That may be true on your side of the pond but I see less evidence on this side though admittedly the Red Tops (as we call the tabloids) do a lot of ‘creative’ writing. And remember that in journalism, what the hack wrote isn’t what goes on the page but what the subs and editors want. Different thing.
What does depress me is the way US press makes a big deal about fact checking yet still makes a ton of errors.
The real meat is in the ‘knowledge’ commentary. Yer man is spot on. Without personal experience or domain knowledge, all you’re doing is parrotting someone else’s press release, spiced up to attract a readership. How many headlines have you seen that bear no relationship to the content? For which by the way, Oracle is doing a fair job on its website! But that’s another story.