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by **Adamski** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 5:49 pm

ZK-MAT wrote:
QUOTE (ZK-MAT @ Feb 19 2012,5:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
What's wrong with the article? I guess that's not a F16?

It's impossible to know!

Either it's an F-16 with the wrong pic ... or the article text is wrong - and the aircraft scrambled were F-15's. I mean - what's the point of putting up an article with so little information - and then get the most important part wrong?

My feeling is that they employ neither journos nor editors. Some [unpaid] 12yr old on study leave simply scans the syndicated articles, cuts and pastes bits that appeal then Googles a pic (any pic will do). Honestly - chimps with typewriters could do better than that.

by **markll** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 9:52 pm

Ummmm... there's an F-16 in the background... lol

by **Cagles** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 12:12 am

markll wrote:
QUOTE (markll @ Feb 19 2012,10:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Ummmm... there's an F-16 in the background... lol

Yes, that is true. I just had my first look and BOOM an F-16. Yes, it is not in the foreground, but it is there.

by **Charl** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 7:03 am

I have been lurking this thread waiting for someone to wake up... and understand that the pic in question would definitely have had an f-16 archive tag (plus of course f-15)
Some of the problem is with the unforgiving readership!
It's a disturbing trend, I notice it more and more in forums too: people will blather on as if the aforegoing 20 posts weren't there!
Perhaps a product of our being served too rich a diet of multimedia news I suspect - information overload.
Although I do agree about a lot of the reporting, so my early morning news is taken here

by **Ian Warren** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 8:10 am

Charl wrote:
QUOTE (Charl @ Feb 20 2012,8:03 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
It's a disturbing trend,

Trend , Blend and always seems to be always wrong in the End . Its lucky i don,t subscribe to the Herald ... mind you .. honestly when was the last time picked up a newspaper ......... Oh that,s right when my neighbour went on holiday , I woke up when the photo was released ... i did'nt want to be embarassed pointing out the the types ..... TRUE !

by **Adamski** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 1:57 pm

Charl wrote:
QUOTE (Charl @ Feb 20 2012,8:03 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I have been lurking this thread waiting for someone to wake up... and understand that the pic in question would definitely have had an f-16 archive tag (plus of course f-15)
Some of the problem is with the unforgiving readership!

Unforgiving readership????

Well ... excuse me ... that's how it *should be*.

"The North American Aerospace Defence Command said it scrambled two F-16 fighters" - still makes that pic (where the background F-16 is almost totally hidden/unrecognisable) inappropriate. I mean - how hard can it be to find a pic of an F-16?? But my *main* point still stands. We don't know whether the pic is wrong or the editorial.

This may sound trivial (with this article), but there was an item a few months back, titled "Plane crash in Waikato" (or something similar) that actually showed a *Jumbo jet* (until I pointed it out to them) when it only involved a light aircraft. My first reaction was "Oh my God - hundreds dead". Words fail me ...

by **Charl** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 4:17 pm

Adamski wrote:
QUOTE (Adamski @ Feb 20 2012,2:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Unforgiving readership???? Well ... excuse me ... that how it *should be*.

Adam you'll get over it, one day.
When I shout at the stupid TV reporting the family loves reminding me that it can't actually hear me!
Most specialised reporting drives experts mad, and often it's not just the cubs that put their foot in it.
I have a doctor mate who loves quoting this at his lawyer mate, I think from The Law Society Proceedings:
She stated that she had been constipated for most of her life until 1989 when she got a divorce.

by **Ian Warren** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 4:31 pm

Arr the Herald , Rupert and his boys never got their hands in with the phone tapping maybe they should try photo reconnition

I do like the Heralds report yonks back about a near miss at St Marteen airport with an aircraft and road traffic ... that would take the prize for stupidity in reporting .... , This paper 'The Herald' must be an Australian newspaper ?

by **markll** » Wed Feb 22, 2012 7:53 pm

Charl wrote:
QUOTE (Charl @ Feb 20 2012,8:03 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Although I do agree about a lot of the reporting, so my early morning news is taken here

Wait, you hate crappy reporting and you read STUFF?????

by **Adamski** » Wed Feb 22, 2012 8:59 pm

markll wrote:
QUOTE (markll @ Feb 22 2012,8:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Wait, you hate crappy reporting and you read STUFF?????

by **Charl** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 8:36 am

markll wrote:
QUOTE (markll @ Feb 22 2012,8:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Wait, you hate crappy reporting and you read STUFF?????

Yeah!
"News" ain't what it used to be, now everyone has access to "News", faster than any "News" paper.
So when you go to Stuff, it is for Entertainment!
And you have to multi-source if you doubt any of the content, it's the way of the 21st century.
The "unforgiving readership" I spoke of, belongs in a previous century, where Reuters pap was slightly massaged and fed to you by some editor person.
Now you have to get pro-active with your news!
And selective, too.

The Stuff Trivia Quiz tests whether you have been paying attention: Which breed of dog is Queen Elizabth particularly fond of? (More than 10/15? you are cheating)
Most popular? Is the other woman always to blame?
(If you don't buy the Stuff version of this thought, Google delivers About 41,100,000 results (0.24 seconds))
No? Stuff Headlines, then: Cruise passenger's cocaine wet suit secret
You can even have Editor's Choice if you must: Black Caps gutted as wheels fall off chase

And it updates, too.
So stop whingeing! You have only yourself to blame if the news irritates you!

by **Ian Warren** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 8:40 am

Whats the old saying ... no news is good news ?

by **Adamski** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 11:45 am

Here's another one!!!!

What's this picture got to do with the story??????

@Charl - I totally disagree with your post

... it's not to do with *how/where* we get our news ... it's how it's *created* in the first place - ie. No *investigative* journalism - or writing of such poor quality that it's ambiguous or erroneous.

by **Naki** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 11:52 am

Her house is located on the side of a Mountain?

by **Ian Warren** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 12:03 pm

THE SIMPSONS .. ooo Fall ouch ooff ouch ooff ouch ooff , i did'nt do it ! , ... Its the old lets go to a war zone and get us killed ? .. this is ... i'm hit .. only a mirror .. ooo .. ya have to show that on the news .. by the way this will be my last report ... NUKE the Friggen area ...

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