BBC Radio 4 visited my university last week and i thought to myself i have to take opportunity to get some experience! I found out there was a college of journalism workshop happening so i opted to put my name forward. Although there was a little hiccup in the beginning about the tickets, i managed to get in the end. The guy giving the lecture was Micheal Blastland- -and eloquent journalist, and author who does freelance for the BBC.
He was speaking about something which most of us journalists or just normal people, take for granted. All these facts and figures we see in the mass media are by large or most of the time, exaggerated and not even checked properly. He was talking about something to do with a journalists having this archetype in their minds which makes them automatically jump to assumptions and make links - something which is done to create more stories out of one topic.
