Repackaged 18 month old news? Must be the silly season!
Stories may go in and out of television and radio news bulletins and newspapers depending on how much has happened in the meantime, but rarely do you get stale news. Today, you did, from the Daily Star!
The story is about new X-Factor judge, Dannii Minogue, and pictures of her enjoying "...lesbian romps with a naked lapdancer." at a London nightclub.
Now, what celebrities do in their off hours is really not our business. But this is minor compared to the real crime here is bad journalism from a lazy media
You see, when I checkout a story that I'm going to comment on, I do it the honour of a little research beforehand. This way, I find out if a story is pure hyperbole, or actually has something a little more factual about it. In this case, I simply typed in the words "Dannii Minogue Lesbian" into Google, and I found the story straight away, with the incriminating photgraphs.
However, what struck me about the story was not the pictures, but the date!
The story is reported on the site, dated February 2006!
This material is 18 months old!
Furthermore, just a little way into the story itself, the site reports that the story was originally reported in the News Of The World!
So, just because she is now a judge on ITV1's X-Factor, this story is dredged up from a competitor, repackaged it and branded it an exclusive!
Quite frankly, this is the ultimate in bad journalism! Fox News Channel is responsible for rather a lot of bad broadcast journalsim, though they do not have any form of exclusivity on it. We see it far too much these days, but this is possibly the worst example of journalism I have seen in a very long time.
A little research told me just how bad this was and proved to me just what these so-called tabloid journalists will do to get their paper to sell more copies. This should give you all the reasons you need to AVOID these kinds of charlatans. Stick to reputable news sources.
