speaking of journalism
https://twitter.com/CrapLocalNews/st...60601341087744
speaking of journalism
https://twitter.com/CrapLocalNews/st...60601341087744
“Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.”
Yeah, that culture of petty, obsessive (and often pretty worthless) fact-checking has pretty much gone down the crapper in the US now. There just aren't the sales to support the staff to do it anymore.
You also have to bear in mind that the UK has the oldest free press in the world. Its roots are in pretty freewheeling scandal sheets and politically-partial muckraking. It doesn't have the po-faced stick up its arse the US press has. The US Press thinks it has some sort of crusading duty to eternal truth. The UK press knows it's an entertainment and tomorrow's fish wrapper.
The other interesting anomaly is that the UK has much, much stricter libel laws than exist in the US and yet the US is much more obsessed with being tediously factual. It therefore tends to see them as its guidelines rather than any more theoretical ideas about objective truth. The truth therefore tends to be not necessarily what strictly happened, but what you can get away with without m'learned friends getting involved.