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Sloppy Reporting from the Irish Indo!

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  • #2
    junder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,706 ✭✭✭junder


    alan85 wrote: »
    I've noticed on the Irish Independent's website that they regularly carry reports from the Press Association that refer to Derry solely as 'Londonderry'.

    As a national newspaper it should correct the article for Irish readership to either Derry (as we refer to it) or to Derry/Londonderry for everybody.

    It's lazy editorialship imho...

    http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/national-news/more-real-ira-arrests-expected-2650489.html
    http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/national-news/petrol-bomb-car-attack-condemned-2650704.html

    Well Londonderry is still the official name of the city until queen Elizabeth says different, since a city in the uk can only change it's name by royal assent


  • #3
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,384 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    Its certainly lazy to refer to it as Derry in their own articles, and ot change it to that in others.


  • #4
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


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  • #5
    Madd Finn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 543 ✭✭✭Madd Finn


    If this is about editorial standards in a newspaper shouldn't this be in the News & Media Forum?

    Just asking.

    Not much to debate about Derry/Londonderry in Politics.


  • #6
    alan85
    Closed Accounts Posts: 333 ✭✭alan85


    junder wrote: »
    Well Londonderry is still the official name of the city until queen Elizabeth says different, since a city in the uk can only change it's name by royal assent
    As a non-subject to QE2 I don't think I need to respect her decision in this respect...


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  • #7
    alan85
    Closed Accounts Posts: 333 ✭✭alan85


    Madd Finn wrote: »
    If this is about editorial standards in a newspaper shouldn't this be in the News & Media Forum?

    Just asking.

    Not much to debate about Derry/Londonderry in Politics.
    Part of me wonders. It is owned by a knighted O'Reilly. Could it be politically motivated? If not, it's just lazy and inconsiderate.


  • #8
    Scofflaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,283 ✭✭✭✭Scofflaw


    Now, I could move this to Media, but let's face it - this isn't really about the Indo, is it? Sloppy editorial standards at the Indo is neither Politics, nor news.

    Instead, I'm going to point out that about a month ago I banned quite a lot of people for involvement in exactly this particular form of tribal willy-waving, and I'm going to close the thread and ban the OP for a month.

    In case anybody fails to understand the rationale here - including the OP - the "Derry/Londonderry debate" isn't a debate. It's purely a way of marking your particular tribal allegiance - virtually the exact definition of 'shibboleth'.

    moderately,
    Scofflaw


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