On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > Anybody watching today's live clusterf*ck of coverage? At this point, > I fully expect that -- within the hour -- CNN will announce that > Martians planted the bombs in Boston. > > VERIFY FACTS! > ATTRIBUTE SOURCES! > NO BLIND QUOTES OR ANONYMOUS TIPS! > I WANT JOURNALISTS WORKING IN NEWSROOMS AGAIN! > > OK... got that out of my system. Feeling better.
For those who aren't following this live, I can't keep up with which supposed newsgathering organization got what facts wrong first. All the big ones were named/involved. First one of them (I think CNN) stated a suspect had been identified, then another one stated the suspect was in custody, then another one stated the suspect was en route to the courthouse to be charged, then another stated the suspect was at a police station... this kept going on, with the media attributing each other as a source, for over two hours, with new unverified revelations every few minutes. All of them... all of them... turned out to be false. -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
