Ngog

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All traditional media operations have been hit hard by the fact they haven't really worked out how to monetise digital content with consequent effects on their income. At the same time, more content needs to be produced to cover the full range of traditional and digital media, minute-by-minute deadlines, etc.

As a result media organisations have been cutting reporting (and other) jobs so that more agency copy is passed off as proprietorial content while fewer journos are required to pump out more stuff. So less is checked while more spurious stories are sourced from wherever, including fan sites and dodgy sources. They're desperate for copy so happily listen to any old ****e pumped out by any vested interest, especially, at this time of year, agents.

Rather than checking stories, media organisations now seem to work on the principle that if a rival 'credible' news organisation has published a story then they have checked it. Quite often though, under the pressure of deadlines, completely inaccurate stories (whether deliberately fabricated or simply the result of genuine misunderstanding or mistakes) slip through one news source's sub-editors and checkers so that then everyone from the BBC to The S*n repeats it.

It's no wonder standards, never really very high at the best of times, have fallen as fast and almost as far as public respect for MPs.

a simple yes would have done

[Neil Young]

'Why' is always a better question.

[Marky]

I've my doubts about Ngog tbh. Still has time on his side but i'm just not convinced he'll prove to be good enough for us.