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Originally Posted by mog
There's a show on ABC here called Media Watch, which devotes itself to uncovering shoddy journalism. It turns out that a story about banning piggy banks - which almost all Australian newspapers carried - is total bollocks.
http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/tra...s/s1494636.htm
Unless someone posts a source that directly quotes a bank employee saying they have banned piggy banks, I'm not believing it for a second. This kind of sensational story makes editors salivate, so much so that they are willing to forego basic fact checking. |
Excellent call. But that fiction came on the tale of
this case. Fortunately, someone said enough's enough.