Saturday, November 24, 2012

Not quite as strange as reading old TV guides

I like to post about the stupidity of the Australian media. David Knox at TV Tonight (a job that seems to require non stop television watching) mentions another example.

Only when you reach the bottom does it indicate in small print, “© 2012 AP DIGITAL. This story is sourced direct from an overseas news agency as an additional service to readers. Spelling follows North American usage, along with foreign currency and measurement units.” In other words, “we haven’t attempted to put this in any context for you because too many of our journos are busy working out their redundancies and the intern lifted this one from the wires.”