Dr Mick said:
Your name is attached to the article meaning it’s your article for which you are responsible. To attempt to pass blame onto someone else, whether that person is paid £6 or £600 per hour is wholly irrelevant. To go running to your editor to try and get a member of your own team into trouble and then announce that you have done this on a public forum is snivelling and despicable. Do your colleagues know what a conniving and underhand person you are?
The fact that you can’t be bothered to review your own article before it appears in the paper clearly demonstrates your lack of professionalism. If my name were to be attached to such an article I would absolutely make sure it was perfect before it went to press, regardless of who else had contributed to it. To do otherwise suggests sheer arrogance and laziness. To display such arrogance and laziness and then to attempt to pass the buck onto someone else and then to go running to your editor to attempt to get this someone else into trouble for your own shortcomings and unprofessionalism is astounding to say the least.
How on earth do you know the bounds of my ignorance? You have absolutely no idea who I am.
The fact that you have taken the time to respond to my comments so forcibly shows that I have clearly hit a nerve and to say that you don’t mind valid criticism suggests that’s probably because as such a poor journalist you are probably well used to receiving criticism by now.
And finally I return to my very first comment. Anyone who considers themselves to be a serious journalist and uses the work “nark” has no place on a student newspaper never mind the MEN.
I stand wholeheartedly by my original comments, in fact I would go further and say the MEN is a Shite rag loving newspaper that employs shite rag loving journalists and Mr Stuart Brennan is the worst offender.
I know the bounds of your ignorance because it shines through every line you have written - I don't need to know you to see that.
I am employed to write articles, and if I spent my time running around making sure that every picture caption was perfect, that I approved of every headline, and sub-head, I would never have time to do my work, or have a life outside of the job.
You may be a control freak, but I am not.
When you work in a team, you have to rely on other people getting things right. The trouble is, as we can see here, that if there is an error on a City story, it is me who cops the flak from the fans, whether it is anything to do with me or not. When that happens, I make sure that the guilty party shares some of the grief.
There was nothing underhand or conniving about it. I am next in the office on Monday, and if the person who wrote the caption is in, I will tell them to their face, and let them know that I have been getting stick for their error.
How do you think it should be handled?
Your observation that my use of the word "narks" is proof that I am not a journalist is hilarious. It was the first word that came into my head, and I would never use it in a newspaper article.
What, exactly is your evidence of me being a "rag loving journalist"., or is that just another product of your twisted mental processes?
And yes, you did hit a nerve, but only because it pisses me off when people talk utter bullshit about things they do not understand, especially on forums like this, where there are other simpletons who take them as gospel.
