Lazy journalism
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havoc

Original Poster:

33,346 posts

264 months

Tuesday 29th September 2009
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Come on guys, please think about what you're writing!

A lot of the features are very good, and TBH I get most of my automotive fix from here rather than the magazines, but many of the news articles, especially the business-related ones, read like they come straight out of The Sun or The Mail - ill-thought-out, sensationalist, and often inaccurate!

The latest one about the Kuwaiti owners of Aston Martin - it tells us nothing, and what it does tell us bears absolutely no relationship to the commercial viability/performance/future of Aston Martin - it's a non-story as it currently reads!

I'm not expecting you guys to be financial wizards, but at least get someone qualified or commercially-minded to check things through before you parrot the latest Autocar headline, eh?

RacingPete

9,197 posts

233 months

Wednesday 30th September 2009
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I will make sure the editorial bods read your comments.

havoc

Original Poster:

33,346 posts

264 months

Wednesday 30th September 2009
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Cheers Pete.

Tone my language down a bit though - I don't want to offend anyone, and when I wrote that I was getting a little riled at all the ill-thought-through panic/sensationalist sh'te being posted by the PH membership on the associated thread!