How to become a journalist?

[SpeedFreak]

I'm guessing the process is pretty easy considering the standard of journalism in the daily mail.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li...n_page_id=1770&ct=5&expand=true#StartComments

In the article, they claim that first time buyers borrow 117k.
This is then followed with the statement that the average first time buyer gets a house worth 155k with an average deposit of 12k. That equates to 143k as the average amount borrowed unless I am missing something.

God I hate the daily mail!

 

[SpeedFreak]

They say the average salery is £35k, is this correct?

I wasn't even gonna bother with that one. 26-27k maybe, 35k my arse

 

[SpeedFreak]

There are many reasons to mock the Daily Mail, but I think the fact that they got some of their maths a little bit wrong is hardly the worst of their crimes.

The fact that they got their maths so wrong that if reported correctly would show that the cost/wage ratio now would be 23-24%, making it much worse than the 21% peak in 1991 and that is not even considering the made up average salary.