The decline in local news reporting

I don't want to lose a local paper or see decent journalists lose their job, but if they are going to rip off discussions from Internet forums either credit where its come from or at least take a few minutes to put things in your own words.

Isn't that one of the first things you are taught at university so you can avoid getting into trouble for plagiarism? Basically ripping off quotes almost word for word just looks lazy and makes you look like you have very little credibility.
 
I don't want to lose a local paper or see decent journalists lose their job, but if they are going to rip off discussions from Internet forums either credit where its come from or at least take a few minutes to put things in your own words.

Isn't that one of the first things you are taught at university so you can avoid getting into trouble for plagiarism? Basically ripping off quotes almost word for word just looks lazy and makes you look like you have very little credibility.

if you’re posting things on a public forum or social media then it’s in the public domain. BBC always use Twitter quotes for that. Think you need permission if it’s a photo or a video, but an opinion or story for example is generally fair game.

another classic lazy one gazette do is following up an article they’ve done with reactions to it and posting comments people made on Facebook and Twitter to the original story.
 
if you’re posting things on a public forum or social media then it’s in the public domain. BBC always use Twitter quotes for that. Think you need permission if it’s a photo or a video, but an opinion or story for example is generally fair game.

another classic lazy one gazette do is following up an article they’ve done with reactions to it and posting comments people made on Facebook and Twitter to the original story.

I know its fair game, none of us on an Internet forum are going to take Vickers to court but his writing style gives the impression that he's trying to pass these stories off as his own thought provoking pieces, when they clearly aren't.
 
The grammar in the gazette is pathetic and quite frankly annoying . Even simple rules you were taught at primary school such as never beginning a sentence with the word ‘ And ‘ is ignored . They have also lost the skill of differentiation between there , their and they’re. 😡
 
My son is a journalist for Johnston press. They used to have an office for his paper but now he works from home and most of his stories are done over the phone. The website for his paper used to be really good and contained lots of local news. Now there are a few local stories lots of generic stuff and clickbait adverts.
I have been worried about his situation for a while the number of old fogies buying papers is continuing to decrease and has been accelerated by the virus.
There is nothing I can do about it save advising him to look elsewhere
 
Merriam webster are American, many different rules, most not great..


OK, point me to an English based rule?

If it's good enough for Jane Austen & many other celebrated English authors, it's good enough for me.

Grammar-Monster.com, Grammerly.com, Grammarist.com, Grammar.com all say it's fine.

Searching google for starting a sentence with a conjunction just throws up dozens of sites talking about how its a longstanding myth that you cant, which has been ignored on both sides of the pond.
 
OK, point me to an English based rule?

If it's good enough for Jane Austen & many other celebrated English authors, it's good enough for me.

Grammar-Monster.com, Grammerly.com, Grammarist.com, Grammar.com all say it's fine.

Searching google for starting a sentence with a conjunction just throws up dozens of sites talking about how its a longstanding myth that you cant, which has been ignored on both sides of the pond.
OK, point me to an English based rule?

If it's good enough for Jane Austen & many other celebrated English authors, it's good enough for me.

Grammar-Monster.com, Grammerly.com, Grammarist.com, Grammar.com all say it's fine.

Searching google for starting a sentence with a conjunction just throws up dozens of sites talking about how its a longstanding myth that you cant, which has been ignored on both sides of the pond.
Not sure that there is, I was just pointing out that your first source was US base and some. Things are done. Differently over here.
 
Not sure that there is, I was just pointing out that your first source was US base and some. Things are done. Differently over here.

According to who? For them to be wrong, there must be a right. Everything I’ve ever seen online looking at this in the past points to it being something archaically taught with no actual basis in fact, just like “I before e except after c”, although at least that is right some of the time.
 
According to who? For them to be wrong, there must be a right. Everything I’ve ever seen online looking at this in the past points to it being something archaically taught with no actual basis in fact, just like “I before e except after c”, although at least that is right some of the time.
Fair , we are just having a chat, they changed spellings etc after Webster wanted to try and make American- English look different.
 
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