In our first part, we heavily criticised News Corp for just being a bad news organisation. By that, I mean that as a news organisation, they are bad. Incredibly bad. (I didn’t mean that they just produce bad news, oh heavens to Betsy, no)
It should be pointed out, though, once again, that I was only singling out News as the worst of what appears to be a very bad bunch. I listed a whole bunch of crimes committed by the media in part 1, some of which were also committed by other media sources as well.
A really good example of disgraceful media practice that is committed across the board, is the tendency of the financial media to regurgitate media releases from companies, without any sort of objective research. Media Watch appears to have strangely left financial journalists alone to date, but will pursue other journalists who regurgitate press releases.
