Dr Mumbo

Pop goes SMH’s news judgement

Hard to know where to start with smh.com.au’s current online coverage of the Texas plane attack.

Perhaps it’s the caption to the video of the building burning:  

The website informs us it doesn’t appear to be crime or terrorism. Which does appear to be slightly contradicted by the story, which suggests it was deliberately flown into the building by an angry tax payer.

However, that pales next to what happens when the video has finished playing. After the viewer watches the building burning, what appears next on screen is the cheery word “POP!”

As that’s a house ad presumably designed to run next to news videos you’d have though someone would have seen that one coming. Or perhaps not.

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