Media Thread 2017/18

[Nails]

Journalism works like any other industy.
Supply & demand.

You are obviously very proud of your profession and so you should be.

If you're telling me that the utter drivel and bullshit that is written daily in the papers is a journalist's best work, then I think you're lying to yourself.

As I said, she's no reason to lie, and I'm sure she's no need to lie to impress me...

I hate The Sun. Awful newspaper.
But which paper's journalists are paid the most and generally considered to be at the zenith of their trade?
Hint: it ain't any of the "quality" papers.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

 

[blueinsa]

What a total load of bollocks. Bare-faced lies.

Not so sure it is to be honest as a piece written for the Sun or Star and its readership is never going to match up to say a piece written for the times and its base.

Horses for courses and all that.

 

[Nails]

Not so sure it is to be honest as a piece written for the Sun or Star and its readership is never going to match up to say a piece written for the times and its base.

Horses for courses and all that.

I've worked at News International. Sun journalists are paid far more than Times journalists.

 

[blueinsa]

I've worked at News International. Sun journalists are paid far more than Times journalists.

Whats that got to do with the quality of work they put out?

 

[mat]

I'm a journalist. Have been one for more than 20 years. I 100% guarantee that either you've been lied to or you're lying.

I'm mates with a freelancer who got told to dumb down his article for the times. Instructed to remove semi colons and 'simplify words for their readership'. If a so called quality paper editors are issuing out those instructions to his highbrow paper they must be using crayons for The ***.

He feels the profession he loves is being diluted for internet clicks and big headlines over actual fact reporting.

 

[Fred_Quimby]

My favourite exercise as a maths teacher many moons ago was to give the kids an exercise to workout the reading age for various newspapers. It goes by words per square centimetre and number of consonant etc. If I remember correctly The Sun and Mirror came to about 7yrs, The Times about 11yrs and the highest was The Finacial Times at about 14. It may come as something of a surprise to you but the average reading age of the general population is about 9.

 

[Sir peace frog]

My favourite exercise as a maths teacher many moons ago was to give the kids an exercise to workout the reading age for various newspapers. It goes by words per square centimetre and number of consonant etc. If I remember correctly The Sun and Mirror came to about 7yrs, The Times about 11yrs and the highest was The Finacial Times at about 14. It may come as something of a surprise to you but the average reading age of the general population is about 9.

do one for bluemoon :)

 

[Felicity Walsh]

Yulk.... Jamie Jackson

 

[schfc6]

I'm mates with a freelancer who got told to dumb down his article for the times. Instructed to remove semi colons and 'simplify words for their readership'. If a so called quality paper editors are issuing out those instructions to his highbrow paper they must be using crayons for The ***.

He feels the profession he loves is being diluted for internet clicks and big headlines over actual fact reporting.

According to nails you're a liar.

It's painfully obvious it goes on. Unless they're recruiting journalists from a pretty dismal pool of candidates.