this is what happens
when journalists are too lazy to do some actual work...
The Daily Mail yesterday reported Apple may recall the iPhone 4. It based the story on “confirmation” from a Steve Jobs Twitter account clearly marked as a spoof. While Twitter account 'ceoSteveJobs' has over one million followers, reporter Richard Ashmore overlooked a vital piece of information prominently displayed in the …
They clearly are.
Then newspaper producers wonder why so fewer people buy their product any more, or are willing to pay for it online. The art of news journalism has been reduced (save for a few notable publications) to googling for news stories and padding them with twitter crap or wiki-spurge. This is something which people can now do on their own computers at home.
Little insight is provided, analysis tends to be woeful at best, and aside from the odd hate-filled rant (I'm looking at you, Brooker) which is genuinely amusing, the main-stream newspaper producers provide little, if anything, worth reading any more.
Hell, with the advancement of health and safety, newspaper isn't even deemed worthy to wrap fish and chips these days.