ABC.NET.AULast week Media Watch highlighted "churnalism" in regional media and pointed to an article published in Lismore's The Northern Star on 25th May 2009.
In its right of reply The Northern Star pleaded newness to the position of the Sunday Chief of Staff as the main cause of the no~no of publishing - a supplied press release passed off as reporting.
Now this CoS may be 'new' to his current position, but he has been a Northern Star journalist at least since 2006 (before that editor of the Rivertown Times since about 2003) and definitely would have known the paper's basic editorial policy.
I doubt whether Media Watch would have gone as softly on the newspaper if it had known that it was discussing "churnalism" approved by a seasoned journalist and editor and not by an implied young, wet-behind-the-ears CoS.
In its right of reply The Northern Star pleaded newness to the position of the Sunday Chief of Staff as the main cause of the no~no of publishing - a supplied press release passed off as reporting.
Now this CoS may be 'new' to his current position, but he has been a Northern Star journalist at least since 2006 (before that editor of the Rivertown Times since about 2003) and definitely would have known the paper's basic editorial policy.
I doubt whether Media Watch would have gone as softly on the newspaper if it had known that it was discussing "churnalism" approved by a seasoned journalist and editor and not by an implied young, wet-behind-the-ears CoS.
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