Broken News
In the hotel I'm staying in here in Belfast there are free copies of the Independent. I picked one up on my way down to breakfast. I skipped straight to the Sport section as I wanted to read about last night's England game.
I was slightly surprised to see that the cover story for the Sport section wasn't England's dramatic 3-2 victory over Sweden but the fact that rain had delayed the France-Ukraine tie from earlier the same day.
The England game doesn't even feature in the sidebar on the cover. Oh well, I thought, The Independent can be deliberately contrary at times. Maybe this is the Northern Irish edition and they're treating the England game as a minor story out of devilment.
But no. There's no mention of the game inside at all. There's an article about the five best goals scored so far and it doesn't mention Welbeck's brilliantly improvised winning goal. Not even in passing.
It doesn't take long to figure out that the paper was printed before the England game had taken place. I can't quite imagine how anyone thought the sports section of a national newspaper could make sense without the biggest sports story of the day. Wouldn't it be better to have late newspapers than early newspapers without the news?
Here's their coverage of France's 2-0 victory over Ukraine.
Except they clearly printed it before the first goal had gone in:
... and before most of the other details were known...
I bet dddddd's Mum is very proud.
I imagine later editions will be corrected... but what is the point of printing an early edition when it is this scant on detail? Who is buying it, when? And if it's just for the free copies that they distribute in hotels and airports and the like... doesn't it work out as a bad advert for their product?
Is this a problem in general with these Euros? Are other newspapers missing the same details or is it just The Independent?
I know newspapers lose out to the internet when it comes to today's news... to now. But when they lose out to yesterday's news as well...
I was slightly surprised to see that the cover story for the Sport section wasn't England's dramatic 3-2 victory over Sweden but the fact that rain had delayed the France-Ukraine tie from earlier the same day.
The England game doesn't even feature in the sidebar on the cover. Oh well, I thought, The Independent can be deliberately contrary at times. Maybe this is the Northern Irish edition and they're treating the England game as a minor story out of devilment.
But no. There's no mention of the game inside at all. There's an article about the five best goals scored so far and it doesn't mention Welbeck's brilliantly improvised winning goal. Not even in passing.
It doesn't take long to figure out that the paper was printed before the England game had taken place. I can't quite imagine how anyone thought the sports section of a national newspaper could make sense without the biggest sports story of the day. Wouldn't it be better to have late newspapers than early newspapers without the news?
Here's their coverage of France's 2-0 victory over Ukraine.
Except they clearly printed it before the first goal had gone in:
... and before most of the other details were known...
I bet dddddd's Mum is very proud.
I imagine later editions will be corrected... but what is the point of printing an early edition when it is this scant on detail? Who is buying it, when? And if it's just for the free copies that they distribute in hotels and airports and the like... doesn't it work out as a bad advert for their product?
Is this a problem in general with these Euros? Are other newspapers missing the same details or is it just The Independent?
I know newspapers lose out to the internet when it comes to today's news... to now. But when they lose out to yesterday's news as well...
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