While reading through some agregated entertainment news articles, I found one that really annoyed me. It was not that it was poorly written, but that is teased information that it did not deliver. If you are going to say that an actor was offered a role in a film, but turned it down, wanting to have a bigger role, should we not know what role he was offered? it seems like a peice of the story that is missing, but needs to be there.
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/214642/David-Walliams-Harry-Potter-blunder/
I see that this is old post, but I'll comment anyway!
ReplyDeleteI do agree in what you say. I hate it when articles say something and don't tell us what is it. I clicked that link you provided and I had the same feeling as you. I was left wondering what the role was. Given my experience with school-level journalism, it seems like the fault is definitely on the writer/reporter. The writer/reporter failed to fulfill his responsibility of probing details as much as possible until everything is clear and makes sense. The article sounded like something he/she heard on the TV and decided to write it as his/her own article. I don't care if it's a tabloid or a full-blown newspaper you're writing for, as a journalist I expect you to be asking as many questions as you can!
And that, sir, ends my rant.