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Journal.ie makes photo mistake and doesn't bother correcting

  • 26-08-2011 12:43am
    #1
    Corsendonk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭


    Very sloppy work from the Journal.ie It really shows you how much they read the comments. They posted the below article 10 hours ago with a google photo of Strand Road Sandymount instead of Strand Road Malahide. A comment was made that the photo was wrong 2 hours after the original posting of the article and the journalist has so far not corrected his mistake.

    Woman and six children involved in Dublin road crash


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  • #2
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,624 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    They used a file photo of the wrong 'Strand Road' - so what? The Journal isn't the Indo or the Irish Times, you can't expect them to leap into action for a trivial mistake like this.


  • #3
    Corsendonk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Corsendonk


    coylemj wrote: »
    They used a file photo of the wrong 'Strand Road' - so what? The Journal isn't the Indo or the Irish Times, you can't expect them to leap into action for a trivial mistake like this.

    Unprofessional perhaps, if they can't be bothered to correct mistakes with file photos how do we know that the details in articles they "write" are correct? The author of that article also went out of his way to write a retort to one of the comments made but ignored the comment made that they used the wrong photo. Very selective standards.


  • #4
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    Corsendonk wrote: »
    Unprofessional perhaps, if they can't be bothered to correct mistakes with file photos how do we know that the details in articles they "write" are correct? The author of that article also went out of his way to write a retort to one of the comments made but ignored the comment made that they used the wrong photo. Very selective standards.

    Strand Rd. PORTMARNOCK actually.


  • #5
    Snickers Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭Snickers Man


    coylemj wrote: »
    They used a file photo of the wrong 'Strand Road' - so what? The Journal isn't the Indo or the Irish Times, you can't expect them to leap into action for a trivial mistake like this.

    Surely a contender for a "Beverage Through the Nose" award for unbelievably crass commentary.


  • #6
    bill_lehane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59 ✭✭bill_lehane


    As a veteran of this sort of thing, I would have to say that is absolutely brutal. The text is about as sloppy as the picture, given the injuries of those involved start off as not life threatening, then range into minor, and then back to not life threatening once more. Although the commenter questioning the cars in the photo is a bit off side I think, it is clearly labelled file photo.


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  • #7
    BrianD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,221 ✭✭✭BrianD


    coylemj wrote: »
    They used a file photo of the wrong 'Strand Road' - so what? The Journal isn't the Indo or the Irish Times, you can't expect them to leap into action for a trivial mistake like this.

    Well the aspire to be a news source and a credible one at that so accuracy is required.

    Apparently it was a genuine error with the photo being lifted off Google Streetview. However, accuracy is required from the start. Trivial as it may seem, when people see inaccuracies like this they start doubting the veracity of the remainder of the article.

    I was actually one of the people who raised the question of the car involved. It is an important part of the story whether it was a 7 seater or not (turned out it was).


  • #8
    bill_lehane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59 ✭✭bill_lehane


    BrianD wrote: »
    I was actually one of the people who raised the question of the car involved. It is an important part of the story whether it was a 7 seater or not (turned out it was).

    Oh, I think I must have misread that. I thought the presence of cars in the file photo was being questioned, not the car involved in the accident. To be fair to the journo involved, the gardai sometimes do not release that kind of detail right away, and sometimes not at all.


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