What is the point of this type of journalistic activity?
What is the point of the Daily Mail?
To scare everyone witless and keep women in their place, at the kitchen
sink.
MK
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Sent: 27 April 2010 14:39
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This type of problem with journalism is not confined to the science
sector. I was in finance. We had people ring with a pre-prepared story,
which they wanted us to rubber stamp. If we disagreed they could become
quite annoyed, and sometimes rang off with the comment that they would
get someone else - presumably better informed - to confirm their story.
What is the point of this type of journalistic activity? - Simon Raggett
Andrew Russell wrote:
> The Telegraph article looks pretty good compared to this one in the Mail:
>
>
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1268794/Remember-ash-cloud-It-didnt-
exist-says-new-evidence.html
>
> The satellite image that they use as "proof" that there was no ash cloud
is from the water vapour channel of Meteosat which only sees a relatively
narrow vertical range and wouldn't pick up the ash anyway. Meteosat does
have a channel that picks up ash, this channel showed the cloud.
>
> What really dissapointed me about this story was that someone from the
Mail phoned me and some of my workmates to ask about the ash cloud, trying
to get us to say that the decision to ground the planes was "stupid".
Instead, we spent quite a while explaining some plots from our lidars
(linked to below) that clearly show the ash layer on the relevant dates.
They ignored this.
>
> http://data.cas.manchester.ac.uk/lidar/
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