{"id":7048,"date":"2012-12-10T21:54:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T10:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=7048"},"modified":"2012-12-10T21:54:25","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T10:54:25","slug":"another-misleading-nbn-headline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2012\/12\/another-misleading-nbn-headline\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Misleading NBN Headline"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, the Australian mainstream media are at it again, using misleading headlines to try and trumpet misfortune upon the rollout of the National Broadband Network<\/a> (NBN).<\/p>\n

Here’s the latest effort:<\/p>\n

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NBN Contractor To Lay Off 160 Workers<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n

And this is how it looked on the front of The Age<\/a> website:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The blurb says:<\/p>\n

“NBN contractor to lay off 160 workers: Construction company Silcar is set to lay-off 160 employees [in] January next year.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The headline and blurb tries to scream out “Hey look! NBN employees being laid off!”<\/i>. It makes no mention of the fact that the lay-off has nothing to do with the NBN at all<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Here’s what the article says:<\/p>\n

“CONSTRUCTION company Silcar, which has won a significant slice of the NBN building contract, is set to lay-off 160 employees [in] January next year.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“The company said in a brief statement that it would terminate the employment of 160 staffs (sic) after it lost the maintenance services contract with BlueScope Steel at its Western Point site.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So nothing to do with the NBN in any way. So why do the headline?<\/p>\n

Yup – just like the last one I spotted<\/a> – it’s all about sensationalist bullshit.<\/p>\n

How about reporting the news accurately<\/i> without sensationalising<\/i>?<\/p>\n

Media fail, once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, the Australian mainstream media are at it again, using misleading headlines to try and trumpet misfortune upon the rollout of the National Broadband Network (NBN). Here’s the latest effort: NBN Contractor To Lay Off 160 Workers And this is how it looked on the front of The Age website: The blurb says: “NBN contractor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[100,339,368],"class_list":["post-7048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-auspol","tag-mediafail","tag-nbn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}