• More sloppy journalism?

    From Crash@nogood@dontbother.invalid to nz.general on Sat Oct 4 12:51:02 2025
    From Newsgroup: nz.general

    https://tinyurl.com/mry8xcdb

    So Jackson and Walsh own the building that the Chocolate Fish is in,
    and it appears that the owners of the Chocolate Fish cafe have to move
    out by the end of January. However the reader has to work hard to
    discover any of this.

    The headline implies that Jackson/Walsh own the Chocolate Fish cafe,
    as only the owners can decide to close it down. However they are not
    the owners - that is John and Penny Pennington. Reading between the
    lines the Penningtons lease the building occupied by their business
    and the building owners (Jackson/Walsh) are not offering a lease
    renewal.

    Certainly the Chocolate Fish is a fixture in Shelley Bay and there is
    probably no suitable building nearby to relocate to. The Penningtons
    may well consider relocation elsewhere in Wellington as too
    expensive/risky. None of this is mentioned. If I were still in
    Wellington I would be hoping that the Penningtons would consider
    relocating to anywhere on the Peninsular or in 'South' Wellington.

    The failure to cover all this is astounding. The headline is
    misleading (unless Jackson/Walsh own the Chocolate Fish cafe). Such
    sloppiness should never have been published - the writer should have
    been told to come back when they have finished writing the article.
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