Instructions unclear: Authorities closing in on AdNews readers
When Dr Mumbo looks for moral guidance, he of course turns first to AdNews.
On this occasion, he feels that AdNews’ advice on Facebook is potentially a tad controversial.
“Videos of scantily dressed children should be published on any platform,” opined AdNews, possibly omitting an important word from the sentence.
Do you really not have anything better to write about than a typo on AdNews? Maybe some actual journalism?
Hi Seriously,
Thanks for the feedback.
You do know we can see from your IP address that you work at AdNews?
Do you really not have anything better to comment about than a diary item on Mumbrella? Maybe some actual proofreading?
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
Dear Tim,
After a particularly lousy morning, this put a smile on my dial.
I thank you.
Jason
Zing!
I’ve always enjoyed a good Tim Burrowes smackdown but this might be my favourite to date. Good one Seriously..
Hi Tim,
Thanks for pointing out a typo on our Facebook page, it’s hugely appreciated.
I’m sure many readers found your attempt to trivialise a serious issue like paedophiles targeting children’s videos on a digital media platform highly amusing.
Keep on fighting the good fight, champ!
Arvind
Hi Arvind,
Writing about your unfortunate mistake isn’t trivialising the issue. It’s writing about your Facebook page.
More seriously, can I suggest you take a look again at the two images you have posted to your Facebook page, Uploading images of scantily dressed children alongside a message demanding that videos of scantily dressed children should not be published seems at best very poor judgement or, worse, somewhat hypocritical.
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
Spin it however you want Tim, but the industry views it as another cheap shot at a rival publication, which does neither yourself or Mumbrella any favours.
If you want to offer me advice, call me. When you take these cheap shots for clicks it undermines your credibility to offer anyone advice, particularly journalists who are trying to do something constructive for the industry by covering difficult and important issues.
It also sets, at best, a very poor example to the fine young journalists on your team.
Hi Arvind,
I’m glad to see you have taken me advice and removed those ill judged images from your Facebook page now.
And thanks for your advice on how to set an example (shouldn’t you have called me with it though?)
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
Arvind you need to calm down, champ.
It was funny. You don’t get a pass just because you’re from AdNews
Arvin – isn’t it hypocritical to complain that you shouldn’t be written about, but called instead, when the whole thing was kicked off by you publishing an article full of advice of what you thought YouTube should do. Shouldn’t you have called them?
Hi The real champ,
I did call them. That’s what real journalists do when we write about an issue. They gave me a response which I published. Tim didn’t call me, but that’s cool, we have different approaches.
And I agree this whole thing is really pathetic and nobody really cares. I have a lot of respect for the journalists at Mumbrella. I’ll leave it at that and wish everyone a good day.
Arvind
Note to trade publications;
Your readership, advertisers and conference ticket buyers think less of you when you beat each up.
Far from grabing the moral/comedy high ground, it merely paints you all as a paranoid children who takes glee in the failure of your peers.
Love, The Industry.
Hi Insight,
You’re right; I know.
Sometimes I can’t help myself…
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
I disagree, I love the humanity of two publications taking jabs at each other. I don’t think less at all – in fact I think higher of publications who will hold their competitors to higher standards.
Arvind made some poor choices of imagery for the article, and the typo was horrendous and amateur.
I don’t believe “The Industry” (as the commenter signed off with) actually speaks for ‘the industry’ at all.
Dear The Industry
Learn to spell and proofread.
(“Grabing”? “Beat each up”? “As a paranoid children”?)
Arvind, where’s your sense of humour? It was just a light-hearted swat, for goodness sake; you’re AdNews, not the Catholic Weekly.
Seriously Adnews? ‘Dr Mumbo’ is fun, it’s acerbic, it’s sarcastic, it’s quirky. Why, why, why oh why, did you bite, hook, line and sinker?
(Not from a Mumbrella IP address.)
I agree that the images of children is wrong. What do Adnews think about the smear, the stereotyping and the bias when it comes to the news pumped out by the commercial TV networks, (including Sky)? Why would a brand want to be associated with such dross?
This comment thread has made my day. If A Current Affair and Today Tonight went head to head in a WWE-style journalist smackdown it wouldn’t be as good as this. Well done lads!
% of people under the age of 40 who care about proof reading = 0%
Everyone, go to the pub.