Post #706001 by AceExplorer on Tue, Jan 28, 2014 10:36 AM

Sometimes the reporters are pressed for time and just can't do the research required to be complete and accurate. Sometimes their sources just don't have enough knowledge to share and make sure that adequate ground is covered. And sometimes the reporters get an assignment and just "get it done" in order to meet a deadline.

I was recently involved in a news story for a non-profit that I do work for. The material was for a high-end magazine which targets people who live in a coastal area with very nice high-end homes. When the article came out, the whole story was written in 3rd-grade English, with choppy sentences and a lot of other distracting over-simplicity. And then the writer also took all the credit for all the photos which several photographers had submitted.

After a while of seeing these things happen, I learned not to take the press too seriously for these sorts of things. They seem to look at certain stories as "filler," and other things as more important core material.

So I wouldn't take this list too seriously, but fortunately it is helping get the word about tiki further into the public eye.