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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You know when you readin the paper that "Scientists have said..." or "A team of scientists has discovered..."
We haven't. You're reading the journalist's interpretation of a press release of an incomprehensible journal article. Oh there'll be a result, sure, but there'll be spin on it that Shane Warne would be proud of.
Scientists by and large can't communicate (and often the material is technically complicated or fiendishly dull anyway), press offices want positive publicity and journalists know that "Apples cure cancer" is what sells papers. That and pictures of Big Brother contestants with their minges out. It's a whole web of misinformation.
Except the "Smoking causes cancer" thing. That one is true. Sorry.
(, Tue 2 Oct 2007, 23:07, Reply)
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