Category Archives: Churnalism

Will churnalism.com change the way press releases are issued?

February 25, 2011 – 9:29 am

I’m sure if you follow me on Twitter you will have already heard lots about the new website churnalism.com and how fantastic it is. Basically, if you can get hold of a Press Release you can copy and paste into the churnalism.com engine and it will trawl news article from 2007 to see if it [...]

By Uponnothing | Tagged , , , | Comments (1)

Jumping to conclusions…

September 27, 2010 – 9:36 pm

The Mail wasn’t alone in blaming ‘yobs’ for a ‘sick prank’, but I’m too busy to round up just how many news outlets churnalised this story so I’ll just focus on the Mail’s coverage: Followed up by this, just two days later: The Daily Mail is quick to point out that it was the RSPCA [...]

By Uponnothing | Also posted in Newspaper Lies | Tagged , , , | Comments (1)

AOL in huge Fail

July 6, 2010 – 10:24 pm

The News Grind is a satirical news site along the lines of the Daily Mash. Today they published a spoof story on the Moat situation: Live camera crews have been deployed in the hope they will capture the best footage of Moat being riddled with bullets in a shoot-out. “Talk about great, cheap telly,” said [...]

By Uponnothing | Also posted in Fail | Tagged , , | Comments (7)

Fact-checking and ‘good faith’

June 27, 2010 – 2:03 pm

A while back  I posted a blog on the charming story of a pig that had a phobia of mud, and pointed out that it was in fact a story completely made up to sell sausages and promote a campaign for the fairer pricing of pork. I linked to the PR company which was using [...]

By Uponnothing | Also posted in Newspaper Lies | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

A Fishy Tale

June 17, 2010 – 3:13 pm

Hot on the heels of the cute pig in wellies suicidally promoting sausages comes this story about a Piranha supposedly caught in Kent: ‘Mystery of the killer Piranha caught by angler in a FOLKESTONE pond‘. As unlikely as this sounds the original headline is one of the most laughable that I have seen in a [...]

By Uponnothing | Also posted in PR | Tagged , , , , | Comments (1)
Your Ad Here