The Media

[James Deuce]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3355485a10,00.html

We need a writing campaign so that these two women are never, ever allowed to write about motorsport ever again.

What has "speedway" got to do with Manfield? That one closing sentence makes a mockery of the rest fo the article.

Of course that falls nicely into the "speed kills" message for Dr Goebbels, errr, Andy Knackstedt to leverage off, despite it having nothing to do with the road.

[Biff]

Typical Jim. Lazy journalism.

[Ramius]

Is that reporter insanely stupid, or stupidly smart?

[Motu]

They sound American,or watch too much NASCAR - raceway,speedway...it's a wonder they didn't say the back straightaway.

[Pathos]

It is a mistake but you're going too far. To my limited knowledge, internet articles are usually not writen to the standards of the newspaper.

The mistake is one error in the last line of the article and probably just the wrong statistic in the wrong place nothing more, you can interpret it how you like.

The writer has not inserted any opinions of their own only those of relevant sources. I actually think the article is very good considering the variety of sources they have used and the work done by the author to be as factual as possible.

in fact I'm going to give them some positive feedback.

[El Dopa]

To my limited knowledge, internet articles are usually not writen to the standards of the newspaper.

Same line was in this mornings print version (Sunday Star Times) as well.

[James Deuce]

It is a mistake but you're going too far. To my limited knowledge, internet articles are usually not writen to the standards of the newspaper.

The mistake is one error in the last line of the article and probably just the wrong statistic in the wrong place nothing more, you can interpret it how you like.

The writer has not inserted any opinions of their own only those of relevant sources. I actually think the article is very good considering the variety of sources they have used and the work done by the author to be as factual as possible.

in fact I'm going to give them some positive feedback.

Terribly sorry, but if I died doing something I loved, and it was worthy of a news item, then I'd expect it to be reported accurately. I'm a drummer. If I died of a cocaine induced heart attack on stage and it was then reported that I'd died playing clarinet in the recording studio it would make a lie of my now ended life.

I'm really glad that you think that irresponsible reporting is OK. Is it any wonder we've succumbed to US-led propaganda in world affairs? That it's taken 50 years for a grass roots movement of the people to actually notice that they have lies spoon fed to them via media sources? I don't care about the medium. The Internet is more immediate, more up to date than the print media and should be more accurate, not less. That kind of mistake leaves one open to law suits in more litigous cultures.

That article will most likely make it to the newspaper in entirety. Motorsport is after all, in NZ anyway, a sport of death-wish fulfilling loonies, with no science or intellect involved.

[Big Dave]

Terribly sorry, but if I died doing something I loved, and it was worthy of a news item, then I'd expect it to be reported accurately. I'm a drummer. If I died of a cocaine induced heart attack on stage and it was then reported that I'd died playing clarinet in the recording studio it would make a lie of my now ended life.

I'm really glad that you think that irresponsible reporting is OK. Is it any wonder we've succumbed to US-led propaganda in world affairs? That it's taken 50 years for a grass roots movement of the people to actually notice that they have lies spoon fed to them via media sources? I don't care about the medium. The Internet is more immediate, more up to date than the print media and should be more accurate, not less. That kind of mistake leaves one open to law suits in more litigous cultures.

That article will most likely make it to the newspaper in entirety. Motorsport is after all, in NZ anyway, a sport of death-wish fulfilling loonies, with no science or intellect involved.

Because some jnr girlies working the graveyard shift for a second string web site used the wrong terminology for the race track?

[James Deuce]

Because some jnr girlies working the graveyard shift for a second string web site used the wrong terminology for the race track?

Yes. That kind of reporting is indicative of a number of things, not least that we as a society don't value the information that we are fed. If reporting of a minority sport fatality can't be correct, then what hope is there that anything else we read or watch has any integrity?

Helen Bain ISN'T a junior girly. She is a senior journo at the Dom-Post and writes columns and has written the odd editorial.

[Lou Girardin]

Yes. That kind of reporting is indicative of a number of things, not least that we as a society don't value the information that we are fed. If reporting of a minority sport fatality can't be correct, then what hope is there that anything else we read or watch has any integrity?

Helen Bain ISN'T a junior girly. She is a senior journo at the Dom-Post and writes columns and has written the odd editorial.

Doesn't your average reader just skim the headlines?

[James Deuce]

Doesn't your average reader just skim the headlines?

You bastard. Way to dismantle an argument for free speech and integrity in the press.

[Lou Girardin]

You bastard. Way to dismantle an argument for free speech and integrity in the press.

OK I'll take it back. I've got to admit I'm a news junkie, but lazy reporting still gets my goat.

[Pwalo]

It must be a newspaper article, hence the totally inappropriate use of meaningless, unrelated statistics.

Guess we're lucky that global warming hasn't been blamed yet.

[James Deuce]

OK I'll take it back. I've got to admit I'm a news junkie, but lazy reporting still gets my goat.

I was kidding! I didn't think I'd need smilies.

[riffer]

Nikki MacDonald's followup article was better.

I would dispute that the DomPost writers deliberately said the wrong thing, or that they were incompetent. It would appear from the second article that the DomPost motorsport writer Bernard Carpinter, who was at the track, relayed the info to them, most likely over his cellphone.

It doesn't really worry me that they use the word speedway instead of racetrack. Thee rest of the article is accurate, and to most non-motorsport fans, the use of the word speedway would be synonymous with racetrack.

At least they fixed the earlier report which said it happened in the pits.