I saw a story about a poodle scam
I immediatly thought there is something not right about this story. I realised they spelt the actress’ name wrong. About 5 minutes of checking brought up this story on spoof.com.
They are not even doing 5 minutes of fact checking!
What about your city’s newspaper?
Is this a poll?
The Boston Globe does fact checking of course because it is one of the newspapers of record in the U.S. However, even the New York Times makes mistakes every single day including the type you just gave as an example. A few years ago, there was a guy that set up a website to cross-check and expose how many errors they made every day and it was quite a list every single day.
I am not sure how one example will show a newspaper’s internal fact-checking procedures.
Ok, I looked at the story. Was this about an urban legend or the fact that someone’s name was spelled wrong?
They read like Onion articles.
Slight hijack regarding journalistic stoopidity: One of the TV news programs in Australia introduced a story about the recent discovery of an “Earth-like” planet about 20 light-years away as (paraphrased,) “A planet similar to Earth has been discovered that could have water and support life. Unfortunately it is in a galaxy far far away.” Well, perhaps, from a certain point of view ;).
I thought the Herald-Sun was a Murdoch rag, and the reliable Melbourne paper was the Age? True or my misconception?
Not sure if you’re polling the membership here, but, in any case, not a General Question. Moved to IMHO.
samclem GQ moderator
I do not remember which is which but both papers have now reported the story.
Actually it is is getting picked up everywhere.
That’s more or less correct. The Herald-Sun and its Sydney stablemate the Daily Telegraph are published by Murdoch’s News Limited. They are both tabloid style with a populist, conservative angle. They’re not quite as trashy as the British equivalent, but they are of a similar style. The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald are broadsheets published by Fairfax Press. They are of a better quality, but have been accused of a liberal-left bias on occasion.
It’d be bloody hard to be a credible news-source if you leaned to the right in this day and age (no pun or advertisarial kudos intended).
Are you saying that you live in Melbourne but do not know the difference between the Herald/Sun and The Age?
Wha?? 
The more I read of you blinking, the more incredible you sound.