Here's a top tip for both aspiring and experienced journalists - if you figure out a way to get blacked-out information from a government report that has been redacted to hell, don't fucking include in your report how you fucking did it, because those arseholes who are trying to hide this fucking information will realise what they've been doing wrong, and nobody will ever get that fucking information in that fucking way ever again, including rival news outlets who also figured out this trick, and are left high and dry by the reporter who tried to show off how fucking clever they are, and instead just looked like a fucking idiot, or at least a cheap magician who can't fucking help showing everybody how they fucking do their tricks.
We're not going to name and shame the people responsible for a particularly egregious case of this kind of idiocy that popped up last week, but they know what they did, and we can only hope they don't fucking do it again.
Don't give away how you do this shit, just do it. Everything else is pure narcissism, and there's too much of that in the local news media scene as there is.
- Katherine Grant
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