Seems like kind of a "so what" apology, but it does the job. But the greater error may have been with CBSSportsline, which didn't confirm either and took the word of the student website, then tried to blame the site when the report turned out to be in error. A couple of quick phone calls, that's all it needed. I saw. Murrow and Cronkite weep for their former network.
Rich ________________________________ From: Doug Elrod <[email protected]> To: World News Now Discussion List <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Sun, January 22, 2012 2:11:29 PM Subject: Re: HEALTHWATCH: Joe Paterno's Health In Decline, Former Penn State Coach Reportedly Taken Off Respirator (fwd) On Jan 22, 3:21 am, Richard de Give <[email protected]> wrote: > One of the first great flusterclucks in modern journalism history: > > http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/160270/how-false-reports... Howard Kurtz, on today's CNN's "Reliable Sources" was apologizing for his own ahead-of-the-facts twittering on this. *AND* he had the NYT's Arthur Brisbane on to talk about the "truth vigilante" thing. Transcript at <http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1201/22/rs.01.html>. -Doug Elrod ([email protected]) P.S. David Bohrman has appeared several times on this program! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" 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/wnndl?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" 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/wnndl?hl=en.
