The Dirty Secrets of Your TradeSo, Television is a hot bed of lies, deceit and made up competitions. We can't say that we are that surprised... every job is full of this stuff. It's not like the newspapers currently kicking TV whilst it is down are all that innocent.
We'd like you to even things out a bit. Spill the beans on your own trade. Tell us the dirty secrets that the public need to know.
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chthonic, Thu 27 Sep 2007, 10:31)
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Socialist WorkerThis wasn't exactly a job, because only the editor gets paid. But Jesus, dirty secrets aplenty. Like adding people into pictures to make demonstrations look bigger. Or running pictures that had nothing to do with the story; for example we might have a story about a big protest in South Africa, and have a picture of some of our black members from England, demonstrating about something completely different, and label that as a picture from the protest in South Africa. All so readers would think we had an international presence that didn't actually exist. Also interviewing people and cutting out the 'wrong' answers, or even making the answers up...
The thing that made me finally snap, and leave never to return, was when I eventually found out that this photo, in a story about George Bush's far-right-wing connections, was actually completely fabricated!
(, Fri 28 Sep 2007, 11:01, Reply)
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