The best example of uninformed sensationalism was when i last week picked up a copy of a free newspaper (which obviously lives off of selling ad-space in the paper). The front page read: "Vestas fires 1300 employees in Denmark" (Vestas is the worlds largest producer of windmills, based in Denmark). The article went on, saying that the economic crisis were to blame, and basically that Vestas was a doomed company.
When I later picked up a copy of an (in Denmark) acclaimed and respected financial newspaper, I happened on an article concerned with the exact same firing of 1300 employees. However, this newspaper had actually taken time to research the matter, and as it were, Vestas had achieved a quite respectable economic growth over the last year, and the reason it fired 1300 employess in Denmark was that it was moving production to places were the windmills were actually getting bought (seeing that windmills are rather cumbersome to transport over any distance, it makes sense to hire 1300 employees for your factory in China/USA, if they're the ones buying your mills).
Bottom line is, that the former, sensationalistic article was not only completely and utterly WRONG, what's even worse is, that it is actually making people who read it DUMBER than they we're by (unintentionally perhaps) misleading them, because the journalist didn't really have to time to research the matter. Despicable...
When I later picked up a copy of an (in Denmark) acclaimed and respected financial newspaper, I happened on an article concerned with the exact same firing of 1300 employees. However, this newspaper had actually taken time to research the matter, and as it were, Vestas had achieved a quite respectable economic growth over the last year, and the reason it fired 1300 employess in Denmark was that it was moving production to places were the windmills were actually getting bought (seeing that windmills are rather cumbersome to transport over any distance, it makes sense to hire 1300 employees for your factory in China/USA, if they're the ones buying your mills).
Bottom line is, that the former, sensationalistic article was not only completely and utterly WRONG, what's even worse is, that it is actually making people who read it DUMBER than they we're by (unintentionally perhaps) misleading them, because the journalist didn't really have to time to research the matter. Despicable...
