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# So, About That Journalistic Fact-Checking Thing...
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2010/03/so_about_that_journalistic_fact-checking/
- Published: 2010-03-11T13:22:56.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T14:47:36.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: Blogs, Journalism, Journalists

So, the thing that seperates journalists from the blogger pack is reliability, accuracy, research and fact-checking, right?

So, how come \[this happens\](http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=45155)?

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“Girl with a One Track Mind” blogger and author Zoe Margolis has said she is taking legal action against the Independent on Sunday after she was referred to as a “hooker” in a headline.

Note to subs: \[Girl with the One Track Mind\](http://girlwithaonetrackmind.blogspot.com/) and \[Belle de Jour\](http://belledejour-uk.blogspot.com/) are different blogs…

Still, that sort of mistake is a one off, right? \[\*\*\*Wrong\*\*\*\](http://westendwhingers.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/really-old-like-moira-stuart/)\*\*.\*\*

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 Despite us patiently explaining who we were and why we were there ITN’s “journalist” and idiot Phil Reay-Smith went on to describe the Whingers as “die hard \*Phantom \*fans”. Lawyers have been advised as this is clearly defamation of the most serious kind.

Only one response is possible:

/facepalm