How not to report a ‘new media’ story
Interesting story about the using mobile phones to combat Taleban propaganda in Afghanistan… but poorly reported. Listen to the audio it’s hilarious!
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I couldn’t agree more. It’s the first time I’d listened to Today in a long time and happened to catch that. Priceless.
When I saw the headline I thought they were talking about the new DFID blogs: http://blogs.dfid.gov.uk/author/vicky
Humphrys even manages to sound disparaging about mobile phones. So patronising.