Hyper vexed
15 March 2007 7:17 amCian writes about a story which ran in last Sunday's Sunday Business Post on the controversy surrounding the Trocaire gender equality advertisement and notes that there are two quotes from blogs in the article. Unattributed quotes, save that one is mentioned as a blogger and the other as a "shocked blogger".
I'd be shocked if the blog authors had asked the SBP not to be named, as it took Google twenty seconds to identify the sources of the quotes.
If there's any sin of omission in this case it's a general one, applicable to online editions of Irish national newspapers. The smart thing for the SBP would have been to link to the blogs it quoted from. But noooooooooo.
But then online Irish newspapers don't do smart when it comes to the web and links, which are its lifeblood. Maybe the odd 'more info' address appears at the end of the article, but even that is as rare as an anti-poverty ad which isn't political.
Online editions don't even link to previous stories the paper has run on a subject. Or use the opportunity to easily explain things like EBITDA or spin bowling. Or cite sources like polls, estimates or CSO reports etc etc etc.
The search for the missing link continues.
March 15th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
[...] Update (15 March 2007): Both Cian Ginty on Blurred Keys, and Fergus Cassidy, write about a short piece in the Sunday Business Post. And Media Forum managed to navigate the BCI site to find the BCI’s press release on the matter, and to link to Fergus Finaly’s comments last year on the political advertising ban generally (a slightly extended version of the same speech is available here (thanks to Simon for the hat tip offblog, and congrats)). [...]
March 15th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
[...] Trocaire Box Populi Published March 15th, 2007 Uncategorized Via Blurred Keys and Fergus Cassidy, I see that I was quoted without attribution in the Sunday Business Post on, er, Sunday, in relation to this post. [...]