tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5841910768079015534.post7079567097341308706..comments2024-03-18T08:28:01.624+00:00Comments on BishopBlog: 2011 Orwellian Prize for Journalistic Misrepresentationdeevybeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15118040887173718391noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5841910768079015534.post-18400403882571384282013-08-13T08:01:35.719+01:002013-08-13T08:01:35.719+01:00This is in the event that the Orwellian prize is b...This is in the event that the Orwellian prize is bestowed on a yearly basis ... I just came across a great example of journalistic misrepresentation of scientific findings:<br /><br />http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23672150Annahttp://www.anna-abraham.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5841910768079015534.post-81087735263598880582013-05-28T09:53:03.040+01:002013-05-28T09:53:03.040+01:00Politics is indeed the problem. If even science ca...Politics is indeed the problem. If even science can be manipulated this way, imagine how much more the laws are being manipulatedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5841910768079015534.post-8794988693653887142012-02-11T03:42:55.112+00:002012-02-11T03:42:55.112+00:00I've just been catching up on the Leveson Inqu...I've just been catching up on the Leveson Inquiry and it turns out some research has been done! Blogspot's spam filter stops me hyperlinking but if you Google the video of the "Full Fact" team's evidence they describe the "Paragraph 19" effect. Ben Goldacre did a post on the research titled "The caveat in paragraph number 19". The research found that on average readers read only half the story, never reaching the (PCC satisfying) caveat which renders the headline void.Neurobonkershttp://neurobonkers.com/2012/01/29/daily-mail-editor-paul-dacre-wins-the-orwellian-prize-for-journalistic-misrepresentation-just-one-cannabis-schizophrenia/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5841910768079015534.post-41194166441941771362012-02-08T07:08:14.597+00:002012-02-08T07:08:14.597+00:00Re great headlines, I like the British wartime eff...Re great headlines, I like the British wartime effort:<br />"British push bottles up Germans"<br /><br />Thank you Professor Bishop for highlighting this tripe.The Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16827285775130578187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5841910768079015534.post-61122863434886860892012-02-01T17:49:37.119+00:002012-02-01T17:49:37.119+00:00How the **** can these **** that write all this **...How the **** can these **** that write all this **** be the ones who pretty much moderate whether they can get away with writing such tosh and then be on the board that says if (or if not as the case may be) the complaints are addressed. Which it seems they have not. <br />Despite this article being awarded a certificate for 'The most Infactual', based on an error-point system used on other articles too, and had an abnormal amount of complaints put forward about it, the PCC decides to palm off the matter?<br /><br />Another prime example of how politics has gone to ****. I call, Government for the people and not for the corporation. Despicable state 'the system' is in now. And its affected the people, they have a voice its going to get used. Bent systems like this is whats making the people speak out in anger against. Revolt?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5841910768079015534.post-22282237182985363952012-01-30T13:37:38.646+00:002012-01-30T13:37:38.646+00:00Ah, right. That's the kind of thing I mean, I ...Ah, right. That's the kind of thing I mean, I suspected someone must have done it before.<br /><br />Would be good to do it with real world stimuli though. Take, say, an article from a "balanced" newspaper, and then replace the title with the headlines used by two sensationalist newspapers of opposing political views... that kind of thing... i.e. make it as naturalistic as possible so critics can't just say "Oh, that's just the lab, not real journalism."Neuroskeptichttp://neuroskeptic.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5841910768079015534.post-70403665198801200782012-01-30T13:27:21.664+00:002012-01-30T13:27:21.664+00:00Just ONE Daily Mail article can bring on symptoms ...Just ONE Daily Mail article can bring on symptoms of rage and despair...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5841910768079015534.post-42715889054405403132012-01-30T12:59:05.197+00:002012-01-30T12:59:05.197+00:00Sub-editors do occasionally come up with genuinely...Sub-editors do occasionally come up with genuinely brilliant headlines, though. Two that spring readily to mind are:<br /><br />1) Super Cally Go Ballistic, Celtic Are Atrocious (when Inverness Caledonian Thistle knocked Celtic out of the Scottish Cup some years ago); and<br /><br />2) Kim Wild! (when the now late Beloved Leader was doing some pretty impressive sabre rattling about nuclear testing).<br /><br />Also at the same time as the headline in 2) the 'Sun' came up with "How Do You Solve A Problem Like Korea?" - bear in mind that this was during the Sound of Music reality competition 'How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria'.Mike Fogghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16518515500907855340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5841910768079015534.post-80546375515874276662012-01-29T22:52:19.048+00:002012-01-29T22:52:19.048+00:00Make that the PCC Editors' Code of Practice Co...Make that the PCC Editors' Code of Practice Committee. Paul Dacre is the man writing the rulebook. This certainly explains the hopelessness of the organisation (who have been investigating this article since October).Neurobonkershttp://neurobonkers.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5841910768079015534.post-14161910618082474212012-01-29T20:51:05.517+00:002012-01-29T20:51:05.517+00:00Catchy headlines sell and improve circulation whet...Catchy headlines sell and improve circulation whether in science reporting or in crime reporting. My favorite was a headline in the Rupert Murdoch owned New York Post. NY Police discovered a decapitated man in a strip joint.<br /><br />The Post headline 'Headless Man Found in Topless Bar'.RAJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17686665037607780553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5841910768079015534.post-70484851482774135282012-01-29T19:24:41.052+00:002012-01-29T19:24:41.052+00:00this is brilliant! its great to see someone going ...this is brilliant! its great to see someone going after the media who just try to sell papers while in the mean time are poisoning the easily manipulated minds of the mass populace. bravoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5841910768079015534.post-87269801961538904872012-01-29T19:21:12.659+00:002012-01-29T19:21:12.659+00:00Incidentally, Paul Dacre is also chairman of the P...Incidentally, Paul Dacre is also chairman of the PCC. Another weird coincidence is that the PCC have refused to address the complaints about this article.Neurobonkershttp://neurobonkers.com/2012/01/29/daily-mail-editor-paul-dacre-wins-the-orwellian-prize-for-journalistic-misrepresentation-just-one-cannabis-schizophrenia/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5841910768079015534.post-57037340240582072752012-01-29T10:26:41.396+00:002012-01-29T10:26:41.396+00:00I like the idea of Neuroskeptic's experiment. ...I like the idea of Neuroskeptic's experiment. In fact, when writing the post I had a vague memory of relevant research on this kind of thing, but I tried a quick Google and it didn't turn up anything. But there's is relevant research showing that if you give a complicated passage a title, that influences how people comprehend it in terms of the inferences they make, e.g. Bransford, J. D., & Johnson, M. K. (1972). Contextual prerequisites for understanding: Some investigations of comprehension and recall. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 11(6), 717-726. doi: 10.1016/s0022-5371(72)80006-9deevybeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118040887173718391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5841910768079015534.post-5828777536736718932012-01-29T10:05:51.596+00:002012-01-29T10:05:51.596+00:00I agree about headlines. People say that headlines...I agree about headlines. People say that headlines are there to attract attention to the main text. But many people don't read the main text, just the headline. It's impossible to know what the percentages are but I'd be surprised if more than say 10% of people who see the headline even read the first paragraph and fewer will read to the end (I'm basing that on the fact that I read less than 10% of headlines I see)...<br /><br />Plus even if you do read the main text, you've been primed to interpret it in terms of the headline.<br /><br />Would be very interesting to do an experiment actually: take a fairly balanced article about some complex issue, give it two very different headlines, randomly assign people to read one of the two versions and then see what the make of it.<br /><br />I don't know but I would be very surprised if people weren't swayed by the headline, even if they did read to the end.Neuroskeptichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06647064768789308157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5841910768079015534.post-77037874628469486572012-01-29T09:27:13.173+00:002012-01-29T09:27:13.173+00:00I would like to see Paul Dacre’s acceptance speech...I would like to see Paul Dacre’s acceptance speech.Grant Jacobshttp://sciblogs.co.nz/code-for-life/noreply@blogger.com