Quote DemonUK="DemonUK"It was corrected on the website only but the damage was already done. If a media outlet is editing someone else's work then that someone should be given the opportunity to OK the edit. The Observer is a paid for paper and would have been using the mass of Leigh Centurions coverage as a selling point. If things they publish damage the club reputation due to awful editing then they have to accept the consequences.'"
I have been called much worse than 'waffley' but the fact is Demon that the media virtually never seek approval for their scripts or allow anyone to "OK the edit". In my view they have no intention of changing the habit. This does not just apply to a local newspaper in Leigh but to all news media right through to the national daily's, TV, radio etc.
Speaking generally, if the media are shown to have got a story factually incorrect then, on rare occasions, they may issue a "correction" hidden away in very few words in a corner somewhere. Apologies tend to be as rare as rocking horse manure and the majority of readers would generally be hard pressed to find them.
I agree with your final point - Derek had a choice of accepting the way the media operate or use his Club Official Website in order to preserve the absolute accuracy and detail of his reports. He clearly felt strongly enough to choose the latter. I guess most of us don't have a problem with his choice.
but very well put all the same.
