Yorkshire Evening Post

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sun 13 Jun, 2010 10:32 am

As I posted below, St Marys in the Wood church in Morley has been gutted by fire in fairly controversial circumstances. There is a Facebook page about the church and the new owner's proposals.When the church caught fire in the early hours of Saturday morning those living in the immediate vicinity were evacuated to Morley police station. In order to report this, instead of sending a reporter to investigate the fire, and interview those who'd been affected by it, the Post's reporter emailed various members of the Facebook page. What kind of a journalist doesn't go and actually find the source of the news?

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Sun 13 Jun, 2010 11:41 am

Trojan wrote: As I posted below, St Marys in the Wood church in Morley has been gutted by fire in fairly controversial circumstances. There is a Facebook page about the church and the new owner's proposals.When the church caught fire in the early hours of Saturday morning those living in the immediate vicinity were evacuated to Morley police station. In order to report this, instead of sending a reporter to investigate the fire, and interview those who'd been affected by it, the Post's reporter emailed various members of the Facebook page. What kind of a journalist doesn't go and actually find the source of the news? One paid the journalistic equivalent of minimum wage who isn't allowed to go out to write the story but is "more productive" at his / her desk?I suspect this is just another aspect of the seemingly never ending cost cutting that seems to afflict most regional papers. It's like the story of the chap selling the Abbot self-propelled gun, the YEP didn't bother checking any of the 'facts' he told them and repeated his assertation that the gun had seen service in Europe during World War 2, only for the letters page to be alight a few days later with people pointing out that the Abbot SPG wasn't actually introduced until 1965, 20 years after the end of the war (something that could have been checked on Google in about 20 seconds). Or the repeated repeating of Worst Bus press releases telling us that bus fares going up is a good thing....

Si · Post by Si » Sun 13 Jun, 2010 11:55 am

raveydavey wrote: It's like the story of the chap selling the Abbot self-propelled gun, the YEP didn't bother checking any of the 'facts' he told them and repeated his assertation that the gun had seen service in Europe during World War 2, only for the letters page to be alight a few days later with people pointing out that the Abbot SPG wasn't actually introduced until 1965, 20 years after the end of the war (something that could have been checked on Google in about 20 seconds). The letters pointing out the paper's errors were under the headline, "When a 'tank' is not a tank..."

Post by **chameleon** » Wed 23 Jun, 2010 7:06 pm

A new law enforcement agency - or a new road......?'M15 may challenge July 7 coroner's ruling'

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Fri 25 Jun, 2010 12:15 am

Report of a collision in YEP tonight.Involved at red Citroen CLIO.A very bad example of 'Cut and Shut'?Or - it looked o.k.from the front but when you got to thebackyou'd forgotten what the front looked like,apparently an elderly driver was involved.

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Fri 25 Jun, 2010 12:24 am

drove past that, messy.

Brandy · Post by **Brandy** » Fri 23 Jul, 2010 12:50 pm

yep spell-checkers on form today -http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/n ... onid=39and this one is a blinder-story one headlined- 'Wakefield gym pool tragedy' about some poor bloke who's drowned.was followed by story two - headlined 'Wakefield swimming pool scheme is sunk'?do these people actually read back what they print??.....orrr am i just being picky??

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Tue 27 Jul, 2010 8:14 pm

They've misspelt Garforth on the front page tonight...you really cannot make it up, can you?That's on top of padding out the paper with an "8 page 2012 Olympics Special" and another 'bonus' news section filled up with reprinted articles from the last week.

Post by **chameleon** » Tue 27 Jul, 2010 8:57 pm

....and someone's gold medal became a gold meal I noticed the other day!

Crazy Jane · Post by **Crazy Jane** » Fri 06 Aug, 2010 6:31 pm

There was a terrible gat attack in Leeds the other day. We never had gat attacks when i was growing up, clearly it is a sign of the times that more gats are being attacked:http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/n ... 24.jpLeeds: Tattoo clue to gat attackPretty bad wording in places too.