Media Bullshit

More Journalistic Incompetence


Let me offer to you my sincerest condolences if your little darlin' is going to college to study for a so called Journalism degree, because in my opinion you have or will be subjecting them to the collegiate equivalent of a "frontal lobotomy" in the four year process.

At least that's the way things seem to work when you look at the crap that gets published by supposedly reputable purveyors of news and information--generally trying to tell the public what is going on out there in the world.

Some of the stuff is so insane that it has to be intentional, not accidental, in my opinion.

Take this week's story by the BBC about the Queen of England walking out on a photo shoot with spazzy looking pop-culture photographer Annie Leibovitz.

LONDON - The British Broadcasting Corp. apologized to Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday for saying she had walked out of portrait sitting with photographer Annie Leibovitz.

The BBC said a promotional trailer released Wednesday from the upcoming documentary, "A Year With the Queen," showed the monarch arriving, not departing.

That scene showed the queen walking down a Buckingham Palace corridor, wearing a crown and her Order of the Garter robes, and telling her lady-in-waiting: "I'm not changing anything. I've had enough dressing like this, thank you very much."

"In this trailer, there is a sequence that implies that the queen left a sitting prematurely," the BBC said.

"This was not the case, and the actual sequence of events was misrepresented. The BBC would like to apologize to both the queen and Annie Leibovitz for any upset this may have caused."

The promotional video showed the queen balking at the photographer's request that she remove her crown.

Here's the story from the BBC Website.

I have to ask how in the heck stuff like this can make it through an entire production process and onto the air and into newspapers in the first place?

I have little empathy for the Queen or the Queen's feelings because I don't give beans about royalty or celebrities (Lady Di is still dead and I still haven't shed a single tear), but seriously, who are these morons and why do they still have jobs this morning after letting something this inaccurate be shown in public?

After all, you don't have to go to college and spend four years of your life and tens of thousands of dollars (or Euros or pounds) of your parent's money in order to know the difference between RIGHT and WRONG, do you?