Dear Journalists,
If all you do is rehash press-releases, can you try giving us the teaser headline first and then, after pausing for dramatic effect, giving us the 'facts', rather than the other way around?
Ta!
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From yesterday's Metro: Biggest breasts in UK to be found in Liverpool, accompanied by a picture of some, er, breasts. A short while later, the same newspaper/website followed that up with the headline: City with the 'biggest boobs' named, accompanied by a picture of Jennifer Ellison in a brassiere. Well, duh, we knew that already, didn't we, having read the previous headline.
Saturday 10 October 2009
Milking a story for all it's worth
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3 comments:
I think you should forgive them just this once .. .. .. the picture was worth it?
:D
The story is probably just a recycled press release of some kind.
Is it me or do the differences in average size between Liverpool (34E) and Birmingham (34A) seem implausible? Surely someone would have noticed by now if this were really the case.
Pages 2,3 & 4 of the Telegraph are increasingly full of these rehashed press releases by supposed 'researchers', I don't buy it as frequently as I used to for that very reason.
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