Journalistic Credibility

A friend pointed out to me tonight that the journalistic credibility of my blog may have been compromised by my mentioning of Adobe Illustrator in the posts below.

This alarmed me, until I realised that it was an observation made on a few assumptions:

1. My blog had some journalistic credibility to lose.

2. My blog has an audience with whom journalistic credibility can be lost and gained.

3. The images below serve to positively demonstrate the dizzying heights of artistic genius which can be achieved with Adobe Illustrator.

Ok, let's start with the first assumption. I don't really know what this blog is, but I would hesitate before describing it as a 'journalistic' blog. It's really just a mish mash of personal, 'satirical' (that's the ones that have been trying, in increasingly desperate measures, to be funny), and bizarre (I actually have no idea where those pug pictures came from. It was late and I was tired. Actually there's a fair bit more to be said on this. When I'm tired, I tend to think, write, and create more outlandish, offensive, bizarre, strange things. I tend to think of it as my creative Mr Hyde. I sometimes think he shouldn't be let out....but he has helped me through many an English assessment, and ultimately I enjoy giving him a bit of freedom every now and then. I apologise for having grossly abused this parenthesis).

Jonathan Holmes (smugly, as he is probably incapable of any other delivery): But that doesn't excuse the sloppy product placement. Running an endorsement as a headline is one of the most basic of journalistic errors, and Gelati Gecko's slip up has simply illustrated some fairly slack editorial skills. (Indulgent wry smile.)