D for Disappointment
Jul. 21st, 2009 11:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kingandyThe Internet rumour mill is a terrible thing. I can't remember exactly where I read that the BBC were planning an '11 Doctors' special for Children in Need, but at the time I took it as a reliable, factual report. Only now that I look around for more news do I realise the original report came from the Daily Mirror, leading me to believe the report may be somewhat less reliable than previously believed.
Of course it's entirely possible that I originally read it somewhere more reputable; the Telegraph, for example, has apparently begun reporting other people's stories as news without actually doing any independent research or corroboration. See for example "CLAIRE BLOOM TO STAR AS MOTHER OF DOCTOR WHO says the Daily Mail though we can't verify it" and "GILLIAN ANDERSON CAST AS THE RANI according to the Daily Express but that's all we know".
Telegraph, you fail at news.
Of course it's entirely possible that I originally read it somewhere more reputable; the Telegraph, for example, has apparently begun reporting other people's stories as news without actually doing any independent research or corroboration. See for example "CLAIRE BLOOM TO STAR AS MOTHER OF DOCTOR WHO says the Daily Mail though we can't verify it" and "GILLIAN ANDERSON CAST AS THE RANI according to the Daily Express but that's all we know".
Telegraph, you fail at news.
