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T&T needs better reporters

Started by sin · 11 months ago

There are many, many things about Trinbagonian media in general, and our newspapers in particular, that make me want to pull my hair out.
I am continually bemused by our haphazard approach to errors and corrections, for instance.
But it is our apparent lack of reporters who actually und ... Continue reading »

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  • Phil

    1 year ago

    Without wishing to further any air of despondency, I would just like to point out that in the BBC, that institution seen as a paragon of journalistic skill and integrity, over-worked and under-skilled journos get basic things wrong on a regular basis. As every, people tend to fall down on basic numerical 'explanatory' skills (eg. 'x has increased by 100%' is not the same as ' x is 100% of what it was a year ago' and so many others i could bore you with...). But even the specialist business journalists get it wrong. For example, I worked on a programme the other day which gave three seperate figures during the course of the hour for the increase in profits of a major company. Sad to say, the problem isn't just in TT...
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