Veronika O
- Registered: 9 May 2023
- Posts: 37
#1
Dear Forumers,
Does it matter how a journalist behaves in getting their "big story"? Are journalists mainly agenda-driven and opportunistic?
Is it acceptable for a journalist to harass someone, bombard them with a lot of phone calls and emails, and abuse their mental health issues. And embellish a story, bend the truth, use prejudice and stereotyping, and just make things up, in order to get their "big story"?
I am sure that there are some journalists who are genuine. That are decent, reliable people and have good principles.
Veronika Oleksychenko
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
#2
Spam
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#3
is that with egg and chips keith. lol
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#4
Brian Dixon wrote:is that with egg and chips keith. lol
Can I have just the egg and chips
, preferably without all of the horrible tacky spam.
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,109
#5
Jan Higgins wrote:Can I have just the egg and chips
, preferably without all of the horrible tacky spam.
What, am I hearing right - there are people who don't like Spam?! Served in a bowl with mashed potato, submerged in tomato soup - yum!
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Veronika O- Registered: 9 May 2023
- Posts: 37
#6
Dear Button,
You say that you like spam when it is the tinned meat product which is made mainly from ham. It was actually served quite a lot at one of the schools I went to. But not served in the way that you specify.
Regarding the other type of spam on the internet, the work of many journalists is basically like that spam, where they just carelessly produce a massive amount of information for the purpose of being paid to do it.
Veronika Oleksychenko
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#7
Button wrote:What, am I hearing right - there are people who don't like Spam?! Served in a bowl with mashed potato, submerged in tomato soup - yum!
Sorry but YUK! to both kinds of spam, but I still like corned beef.
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,397
#8
True story.
My carer's father used to cook spam fritters. She knew he had learnt German during the war so when they were served up as 'Dedurman' thought this was German for 'spam fritter'.
It was years later that she found out that her father, a Burnley man, was referring to 'dead airmen'.
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Veronika O- Registered: 9 May 2023
- Posts: 37
#9
Dear Captain Haddock,
Thank you for your anecdote but I guess it basically seems like another negative view of this tinned meat product. Personally I have nothing against that kind of spam. But of course no one surely likes online spam, email spam, or newspaper spam.
Veronika Oleksychenko