wake up and smell the copy
Posted in writing on Oct 10th, 2007
One of the best things about English is the fact that, if you know what you’re doing, you can mess about with it. In fact, even if you don’t know what you’re doing you can often get away with it. If everybody stuck to the rules we wouldn’t have the twisted brain-wrong of a one-off [...]
Posted in journalism on Sep 30th, 2007
Ok, I promised that my next post wouldn’t be about the Beeb. Sorry. Just wondering if anyone else finds it annoying to be told to ‘log on’ to a website. The BBC do it all the time. Earlier this summer there was a particularly grating little segment they kept playing on South East Today (be [...]
Posted in writing on Sep 26th, 2007
On one of the sites for which Charlie and I write, we also moderate reader comments. Aside from the genuine responses and the occasional shameless plug for people’s own projects, there’s an increasing influx of spam. Now, I consider myself fairly liberal when it comes to smut, but some of the links in our moderation [...]
Posted in journalism, online journalism on Sep 13th, 2007
Attempting to extract information from a press office yesterday, it occurred to me that press officers need to get with the programme, or social media is going to whup their sorry asses. My request wasn’t a toughie. I’d seen a story on BBC News that I wanted to cover for a client. The source was [...]
Posted in journalism on Aug 31st, 2007
I’ve just got back from a great day at Goodwood Revival with my Dad. Heading back home, his radio switched itself on to tell us the travel news, and we were treated to a local radio journalist: “You’ve got your roadworks and tailbacks Eastbound on the A27…” at which point both of us shouted that [...]
Posted in journalism on Aug 31st, 2007
“Fact me till I fart,” Chris Morris once commanded. That man was way ahead of the curve. In this little beauty, the BBC has bravely dispensed with those troublesome linking ideas that pull a story together, in preference for the stark-bollock-naked facts. It’s all rather conventional up until the crosshead, but then the journo lets [...]
Posted in journalism on Aug 23rd, 2007
Alright, it’s not just about the BBC, but are all the sub-editors on holiday? Apparently, eight out of ten people feel safe. What about now? Do you feel safe now? And now? Still, at least you haven’t got global warming to worry about, as a Scottish bus builder hopes to invent a bus with zero [...]
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