Fucking hell, even Gawker is parroting this Demi Moore/Sarah Brown twitter nonsense now.
Is there seriously such pressure on to get stories published that research just doesn’t happen in modern journalism? I’m at work myself (admittedly on a slow day), but I had time to look up the source of this story and was able to check the facts. It’s really not that fucking difficult.
Sorry, but this genuinely annoys me. It’s not the whole old/new media thing, nor is it about Twitter.
It’s about sheer fucking laziness on the part of journalists who would rather repeat something almost verbatim than bother to go and check the fucking facts them-fucking-selves.
It’s about the rush to get something out there so that people see it, and see the surrounding adverts, rather than making sure that something is true, or accurate. It’s about not wanting to be left behind or usurped by a rival.
It’s about the race to the bottom in terms of journalism, wanting everything faster and cheaper, and the accuracy of the “news” can simply go fuck itself.
And it’s really, really fucking depressing.
