Ros Reines from Sydney Confidential in The Daily Telegraph recently claimed to 17,500 Twitter followers that some newsagents don’t put out magazines each day. I responded and found out it was two newsagents in Bondi. Reins has not responded to other questions I’ve put.
A professional journalist would check the facts before publishing. I want to know if Reines checked the facts. What was the title being sought out? Were staff in the businesses asked? Was the title some place else and not in the usual location? Was the comment based on unopened bundles? If so, these could have been extra stock.
If the newsagents in question did not have titles out that should have been out, shame on them for their treatment of the products and for their damaging of our reputation.
Right now, however, we don’t have the facts and Ros Reines is not responding.
This is not a gossip piece like you find in Sydney Confidential. This is a sledge against a small business channel, a sledge that needs to be responded to.
I think you’re drawing a long bow calling Reines a journalist let alone a responsible journalist.
What magazine would she be thinking should have been delivered and put on display on a SUNDAY?