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Oops. Newspaper headline for The Embassy gets the channel wrong.
Nine won't be too impressed that newspaper sub-editors attribute their show to ABC TV.
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Good one Sunday Telegraph.
The headline you have for today’s premiere of new observational series The Embassy, incorrectly attributes it to ABC TV.
But the show is actually on Channel Nine.
After all the trouble Nine went to in organising the story, the least the paper’s subs could have done was check their own TV guide.
It’s on at 6:30pm in case you weren’t sure.
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10 Responses
@Johnson – Oh, I must have been out when they came by my house to put a “Nine” sticker over the “ABC TV” in my paper.
The embassy; what a crock I have been to the Australian embassy in Bangkok at least 10 times in the past 20 years. Suddenly as per your program their are a number of Australian embassy staff available to sort out the problems of a number of undeserving ill mannered Australians. In all my visits embassy staff hid behind Thai employees and were not available to sort out any problems brought to the embassy (regardless of issues and communication problems) . When I last visited the embassy to request as an Australian citizen if I could use the embassy address for some urgent important documents the Thai staff member agreed and then after daily visits for a week I was told finally by an Australia staff member that the embassy was not a post office and the documents were lost.
Next time I will try the Russian embassy.
No real journalism now…(other than right here)…
Newspapers/magazine just take a grab off the internet and everywhere you read the story, it is the same….If you watch Media Watch…you will see how many times they all jump on the same band wagon and don’t even bother to check if the story is right or wrong.
The Sunday Telegraph has sensibly corrected the article title to say The Embassy is a Channel Nine show.
They might have had a long memory, there was an Australian drama series called Embassy on ABC TV from 1990-1992.
Yes I recall Embassy too, but it doesn’t make the blunder ok.
The sub-editing of the “Illawarra Mercury” (Fairfax-owned), and even our local, now Fairfax-owned “Lake Times” and “Kiama Independent” (better change the name now – it’s no longer ‘independent’) were “outsourced” to NZ a year or two ago. The mistakes have been howlers.
mumbrella.com.au/fairfax-to-outsource-regional-newspaper-production-to-nz-94278
Is that true Pertinax? If so, wow! Outsourcing & cost cutting taken to the nth degree.
Have always wondered if outsourcing was responsible for Fairfax publishing the wrong photo of a ‘terrorist’ youth recently. That will cost them big time.
The Sub-editors are subcontractors in NZ or The Phillipines who don’t have any context. They probably use the IMDB and found the ABC’s old drama.
Such mistakes in the papers are happening more and more frequently.