Seeking a suitable put-down for the teenage burglar who wrote “a disgraceful letter” to his victims as part of a so-called restorative justice programme, today’s Metro contemptuously brands it “an illiterate note”. I mean, what more can you expect from some hoodie scum who breaks in to people’s houses and then calls them thick? I have bad news. […]
Oh dear – journalism undergraduate workies at the BBC? Or maybe just someone under 30 editing the Radio 4 programme pages. From the current Woman’s Hour Drama page, a classic “who’s/whose” muddle. Why, oh why, oh why, BBC…
Another big gap in posting on Freelance Unbound in October (and, indeed, November) is not simply a sign that I am working too hard at my day job. No – the new university semester is drowning me as a learner, as well as a teacher. This October saw me take on my dark nemesis – […]
This year at UCA Farnham, we are using Posterous as our first-year multiplatform journalism unit blogging tool. Halfway into the semester, how is it working out?Not badly, actually. Here are the pros and cons. Cons first. Cons That Posterous redesign that happened in September. Oh, how that sucked. There’s a pretty good account here of […]
Spotted – very briefly – on the BBC news site on Sunday: a rib-tickling double-entendre headline that bored sub-editors probably enjoyed writing a bit too much. Sadly, if unsurprisingly, wiser heads prevailed and the head was quickly changed. I don’t know why, but the second headline just doesn’t seem mucky – even though it uses […]
The death of two-year-old Isobel Dobson in a van fire last Friday is now being treated as “suspicious” by police, who have arrested a 37-year-old man in connection with the incident. Could this be the same 37-year-old man who tried to save her on Friday? Her stepfather, in fact? BBC online sub-editors seem to think […]
Which is exactly what life should be like…
The lovely Eleanor Riches at Acorn Independent Press writes: “I was wondering if you might be interested to see the new edition of Good Times Bad Times by Harold Evans. A pioneer of investigative journalism, Harold worked his way through the ranks of student journalism, through regional papers, before becoming editor of The Times. A proper […]