This is quite depressing and also quite funny at the same time. It’s a drunk journalist from the Birmingham Mail boasting about his attempts to file a story on the US election while horribly pissed. His solution is to copy and paste it from the BBC, while revealing the fact to someone holding a video camera. His finished story has since been removed from the Birmingham Mail’s website.
This is possibly the sort of thing that was taken for granted as little as ten years ago. I’ve heard lots of historical anecdotes about the olden days, where hacks used to curl up under the desk for a kip after a long lunch. But today it appears ludicrously unprofessional. One suspects a P45 may be in the post.
Via One Man and His Blog and Markmedia
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I can’t watch it, it’s unbearable. And isn’t it a rather unpleasant thing to do to film this bloke and post the video in the full knowledge that he’ll probably get the boot.
OTOH hand who’d be stupid enough to rip off a story from the BBC? At least use an obscure source no-one will ever see…
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