D for Disappointment

[kingandy]

The 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.

Comments

[kmazzy.livejournal.com]

the telegraph sucks anyway. it's the bane of my saturday mornings.

[kingandy]

Have you tried not reading it?

[kmazzy.livejournal.com]

i don't read it!

[doctor-kaos.livejournal.com]

Are you a postboy?

[kmazzy.livejournal.com]

i am not, but we get papers delivered to the library for the public to peruse and i have to take out all the sections and stamp them all and then staple them all together and the bloody telegraph is so huge and unnecessarily complex. if only all the papers were like the independent. ahhhh. that paper is my friend.

the times used to be my friend until it randomly started doing one section in broadsheet size and the rest in regular tabloid size. stupid times!!!

also:

FT = bad
guardian = good