Geelong Advertiser footy lift-out mistakes!

[Flat Track Bully]

Here's a few of mistakes to start with...

1/ Adam Skrobolak is not coaching East Geelong and hasn't been for more than a week.
2/ I thought Christian Hyland was retiring from Thomson...apparently not...however some bloke called Christian Highlands is... how disrespectful to one of the finest GDFL players of the past decade.
3/ I thought Wade Bowyer was leaving BPH for St.Joey's...not Grant
4/ Heath Buck and Roland Beck have retired from Centrals...not Bucks and Becks.
5/ Put some thought into who is a significant addition to a club before putting them as an "in", especially when you fail to mention which club some ins and outs are from, especially to allow for space...
6/ Also in Thomson, they really couldn't decide on whether the Tigers new coach is Glenn Wallace or Glenn Wallis

[The Hulkster]

Those sort of inaccuracies are hardly surprising for the Addy. A very average newspaper at best. How many pre season training sessions do you think those reporters went to. They just looked up the transfers on the football geelong website like the rest of us.

Standby for another season of ill informed writing from Addy local football journalists.

[catattack]

In fairness to the reporter you are inadvertently referring to, he looks like he's straight out of high school with very little experience. Aspiring journalists need to start somewhere and they are going to make mistakes along the way. As long as they learn, then that's the most important thing.

You can't tell me that when you first started your job you didn't make a few little blunders. Heck, you probably still do now from time to time. Humans make mistakes.

The only problem is, errors made by journalists are forever etched into print for everyone to see.

To that reporter, if you read this, soldier on mate. You probably had to deal with clubs who didn't give you the simple info you wanted, or were not clear when dealing with you.

As a journalist, you will know you have done a good job when no one talks about you, because people only, somewhat hypocritically, single out journalists when they make an error.

[InterleagueRover]

In fairness to the reporter you are inadvertently referring to, he looks like he's straight out of high school with very little experience. Aspiring journalists need to start somewhere and they are going to make mistakes along the way. As long as they learn, then that's the most important thing.

You can't tell me that when you first started your job you didn't make a few little blunders. Heck, you probably still do now from time to time. Humans make mistakes.

The only problem is, errors made by journalists are forever etched into print for everyone to see.

To that reporter, if you read this, soldier on mate. You probably had to deal with clubs who didn't give you the simple info you wanted, or were not clear when dealing with you.

As a journalist, you will know you have done a good job when no one talks about you, because people only, somewhat hypocritically, single out journalists when they make an error.

Common sense journalism would mean giving the clubs a ring and finding out some facts, even if the writer did just look at the vcfl website to obtain the ins and outs they did a dismal effort because a huge amount of mistakes were made simple things like names clubs players were transferring from. The whole liftout was a complete lack of professionalism by the Geelong Advertiser. If it's not blue and white and called a cat they don't give one ounce about local footy who do they think buy the papers! The locals thats right!
I don't think Brad Green would of seen anything like that when he was at the Warrnambool Standard!

[sandysnap]

The Geelong Advertiser sports reporters that report the local football have no idea really, judging by their past articles, they are just bias to the teams they follow and their mates, i'm sick of readin about the geelong amatures every year, and in relation to calling every player superstars, they never do it 2 any other club, why ammos? They don't even give a good insight in2 the game, they just write a lot of shit, espically Nick Price.
All the god journos hav gone like david davutovic, jay clark etc

[The Hulkster]

In fairness to the reporter you are inadvertently referring to, he looks like he's straight out of high school with very little experience. Aspiring journalists need to start somewhere and they are going to make mistakes along the way. As long as they learn, then that's the most important thing.

You can't tell me that when you first started your job you didn't make a few little blunders. Heck, you probably still do now from time to time. Humans make mistakes.

The only problem is, errors made by journalists are forever etched into print for everyone to see.

To that reporter, if you read this, soldier on mate. You probably had to deal with clubs who didn't give you the simple info you wanted, or were not clear when dealing with you.

As a journalist, you will know you have done a good job when no one talks about you, because people only, somewhat hypocritically, single out journalists when they make an error.

I would have thought the first lesson in journalism would be to check your sources to ensure accuracy and the second would be to proof read. Not particularily difficult to do.

[galpal]

Name them n shame them I say!if pple r going to read what they write n they get paid for it I think they should be more accurate.can anyone tell me who writes what?