It seems a bit strange to me that the media carefully warn about and label any content that involves sex, violence or strong language m but there's no similar labelling system for, say, sloppy journalism and other questionable content. I figured it was time to fix that, so I made some stickers. I've been putting them on copies of the free papers that I find on the London Underground. You might want to as well.
Journalism Warning Labels
Journalism Warning Labels
Tags: pranks
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I do a little bit of writing for a small local that's financially on the rocks after their payroll firm defrauded them out of several years worth of payroll tax. I like the way we handle the first case:
Sometimes we do just run with the press release. To do so, we copy and paste it and prominently label it "Press Release".
If you haven't read Ioannidis's Why Most Published Research Findings Are False, you should: it explains why you so often see news reports that foo cures cancer and then, two years later, see news reports that foo doesn't actually do anything (if there's any follow-up at all).
The phenomenon highlighted by the stickers is known nowadays as churnalism, a result of the reduction of journalism staffs and corresponding expansion of PR staffs.
This is excellent.
People sticking stickers on things to make a statement seams to be popular now...
Bill Stickers is innocent!