Quote, Misquote
In response to Nick’s experience in getting quoted out of context, I present to you the following picture for the lulz.
Seriously though, this practice of sensationalizing and selective quoting has got to stop. When will the journalists (and more importantly, the editors) of such stunning examples of (craptacular) journalism realize that jazzing up your copy like that might sell a few more copies short term, but does great damage to your reputation in the long run.
The younger generation these days are already shying away from newspapers in favor of bias-free (OK fine, i mean bias-free in a very loose context) ‘alternative’ new media; it doesn’t seem very smart to give them yet another reason to continue going away in droves.
Let’s not get onto the fact that boneheaded journos continue to imagine hard links between gaming and violence, for example.
Report the facts and report your findings, but let’s not start baseless speculation, or write with a one-eyed view on things.
Be a journalist. Not one of them ‘sales-journos’.
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