Crumbling standards

This is the most pathetic yet I reckon.

Wallabies Lock struck down by Deep Vein Thrombosis

The Wallabies have been forced into a late change for Saturday's Tri-Nations and Bledisloe Cup rugby test agains the All Blacks, with experienced No.8 David Lyons ruled out due to Deep Vein Thrombosis.

FFS!!!!!! it's only 2 centimetres apart!!!

They must have a team of monkeys working together on each story, none of whom know what the others are doing. No wait, thats mean to monkeys, even they know to throw their own shit out. Stuff continues to show a flagrant disregard for journalistic standards, starting right at the bottom with simple proof-reading. We have stated many examples both here on the blog and in the podcast.

I cant wait till Fairfax buy us out and we stand by and watch as the Dropkicks blogcast turns quickly and quietly to shyte.

The Hammer

Stuff knows all

Or, more accurately, Stuff knows stuff all, as they seem to be just making up random figures for their stories now (or again, as previous experience has shown).

This one, for example, discusses the naming of the new Wellington A-League football franchise and its owner Terry Serepisos...

Serepisos, whose name had been googled 13,300 times during the past week, admits he's still coming to terms with the enormity of the task, but said the support he had received was "overwhelming".

13,300 times? How would anyone know how many times they'd been googled over a given time period?

Google, as far as I know, doesn't really give that sort of specific info out except via vague trends and zeitgeist reports, so I'm at a loss as to how Stuff could be so confident with their number.

Why Stuff.co.nz is crap

To further the new segment of our podcast (which you'll hear soon) we bring you "why Stuff.co.nz is crap". This will be us posting (and podcasting) the terrible sports-reporting being done by "New Zealand's source for sport, rugby, cricket & league news". Feel free to send us anything you find and we'll put it up.

Today's Stuff-crapiness comes from Dom who was reading about the World Swimming Champs in Melbourne.

Champion United States swimmer Michael Phelps already has one giant hand on the gold medal after cruising through the second semi in 1min 55.13sec, more than a minute outside his own world record set last year.

My God, less than 55 seconds to swim 200 metres. Was he actually in the water when he set that record?