The Sunday Tribune - Can Journalism Standards Drop Any Further?
Sometimes Irish "journalism" makes my head hurt.
Below is a clipping from The Sunday Tribune
You may recognise it from this....
And this....
Yes, they fell for a P45 Urban Legend - big deal? Well, we produced the original story in 2003, The Sunday Tribune ran it on April 24 2005, and still treated it like it had just happened. We even owned up to producing it on August 01, 2003.
The Irish Independent confirmed its position as the leading journalism led paper it the country by sussing it as a joke. (We think)
The BBC bought it so did The Irish Voice andThe Irish Echo
Even the techie press was interested. Once The Register published it, it was taken as fact by many sources:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/29855.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/29864.html
Posted by Paul Clerkin at May 29, 2005 03:28 AM | Email a friend this entry
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