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Wednesday
Aug182010

Journalism Warning Labels

I've been working in the media realm and have been interacting with journalists on a daily basis for the past two years; and I can assure you that the media world is sort of a tricky place. Not always because of the (poor, and at times foaming-angry) journalists, but some "higher forces" usually step in the picture.

Anyway, I won't get any more into it, I am obviously no media expert, but these stickers by TomScott made my day (at the office). Now I am tempted to make some adaptations to the local press and go around and plaster most of the publications with them.

Tom Scott says: "It seems a bit strange to me that the media carefully warn about and label any content that involves sex, violence or strong language — 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."

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