The whingeing Press
Front page of The Press today is this article on how they (i.e.Fairfax the people who print the Press) ended up paying compensation to a murder. Diddims
Let me get this story straight :
1) Your a leading news media company ... Fairfax
2) You print a story that contains factual errors.
3) You don't have enough journalistic integrity to retract the errors when asked, cos hey it's ok for journalists to lie as long as it's about really bad men who haven't got any money to defend themselves.
4) When turns out they can get legal aid and defend themselves you get all soft and back down.
5)..... and finally the icing on the cake, you abuse your position to whine about how unfair this is on the front page of your own publication "The Press".
It's a pity this bad man is getting any compensation but it wouldn't have happened if Fairfax had any integrity to begin with.
I especially love they way they quote themselves in the third person, no shame.
posted by Brassy @ 10:54 pm
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3 Comments:
dan dan dan.....
What? Seriously, what ever happened to good journalism? All the had to do was print a retraction when asked, it would have read "...yesterday's story... was incorrect ... although evidence suggested this guy was a rapist he was never charged or convicted" done, that's all they needed.
They lost now they want to use their privileged status to lash out cos their sore losers.
He's a bad man and probably shouldn't be allowed to keep the money but "The Press" should definitely lose it.
... and how much is it any way? costs plus "a small undisclosed sum". If the paper won't print it and they presumably know (having paid) it must be tiny.
Journos in NZ are woeful in many ways, so they should definately be punished for distorting the news.
The journo in question should of been forced to pay out of their own pocket.
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