Stupid Reporters, Get Your Facts Straight!

Published on October 7, 2006 By MasonM In Misc

I just saw a news story on my local station about a truck wreck. During the story they talked about the hours of service rules. They got almost everything wrong. These rules are published, accessable on the internet, and there is no excuse for them being so obviously wrong. Just pure laziness on their parts.

It seems that if they are going to report on something they could at least take 5 minutes to check their facts. I immediately shot them an email correcting their absurdly wrong report.

I wonder if I'll hear back from them or if they'll even bother to correct themselves?

Comments

ParaTed2k

on Oct 07, 2006

I've NEVER been on a scene that made the news where I didn't wonder what story the reporters on scene were covering. Expecting reporters to get the story straight is like expecting Barney Frank to get his love life straight.

MasonM

on Oct 07, 2006

Reply #1
I've NEVER been on a scene that made the news where I didn't wonder what story the reporters on scene were covering. Expecting reporters to get the story straight is like expecting Barney Frank to get his love life straight.

Yes, one does have to wonder about them. I've been involved with a few stories over the years and not once were they reported accurately.

dharmagrl

on Oct 07, 2006

I agree with Ted. All the reporters I've come in contact with have never got anything right. For instance, they ran a news report in the days after 9/11 about how the line of cars waiting to get on base were all military personnel who had been told to report to the base immediately. They weren't, they were just people trying to get home. The line was due to it being FPC Delta, meaning that EVERYONE had to have their vehicle searched prior to being allowed on base. Had they done a little research, they'd have known that, but they decided to be sensationalist and make it into something it wasn't. I called the newsdesk and told them they were full of poo and I was disappointed with them, and they said I was about the 20th caller to say the same thing.

I never watched that particular channel's local news again....I felt like I couldn't believe anything they said.

terpfan1980

on Oct 07, 2006

Heh, if they got the facts straight they'd have to ignore their original premise and admit they were wrong. Not gonna happen.

As another funny for you -- at about 11:47am (eastern time) this morning, ESPN was running the crawl on their HD channel -- it noted the current MLB division series status and noted that Oakland def Twins, and then went on to note that Yankees def Tigers 6-0.... OOoooops, that may be the result that the idiots at ESPN wanted, but it's not what happened -- the Yankees were def by Tigers 6-0, not the other way around.

Of course the Yankee lovers in Bristol probably wanted the other result, but oh well.

jennifer1

on Oct 07, 2006

Good for you for putting them straight

Dr Guy

on Oct 07, 2006

I am with the others. I would not expect any type of correction. Or they could to a NYT and bury it in the classifieds. Arrogant b**tards.

feisty_in_ohio

on Oct 07, 2006

News Reporters - translation = News Distorters
Truck Driver - translation = Dumb Redneck.
How could you possible know the laws & rules of your profession?

MasonM

on Oct 08, 2006

Reply #3

I agree with Ted. All the reporters I've come in contact with have never got anything right. For instance, they ran a news report in the days after 9/11 about how the line of cars waiting to get on base were all military personnel who had been told to report to the base immediately. They weren't, they were just people trying to get home. The line was due to it being FPC Delta, meaning that EVERYONE had to have their vehicle searched prior to being allowed on base. Had they done a little research, they'd have known that, but they decided to be sensationalist and make it into something it wasn't. I called the newsdesk and told them they were full of poo and I was disappointed with them, and they said I was about the 20th caller to say the same thing.

I never watched that particular channel's local news again....I felt like I couldn't believe anything they said.

Well, actually you can't believe them. They're all full of shit. They're in too much of a rush to make a story deadline to bother to actually get any facts.

MasonM

on Oct 08, 2006

Reply #4

Heh, if they got the facts straight they'd have to ignore their original premise and admit they were wrong. Not gonna happen.

As another funny for you -- at about 11:47am (eastern time) this morning, ESPN was running the crawl on their HD channel -- it noted the current MLB division series status and noted that Oakland def Twins, and then went on to note that Yankees def Tigers 6-0.... OOoooops, that may be the result that the idiots at ESPN wanted, but it's not what happened -- the Yankees were def by Tigers 6-0, not the other way around.

typical

MasonM

on Oct 08, 2006

Reply #5
Good for you for putting them straight

Not that it will do any good.

MasonM

on Oct 08, 2006

Reply #6
I am with the others. I would not expect any type of correction. Or they could to a NYT and bury it in the classifieds. Arrogant b**tards.

Yeah, they pretty much suck.

MasonM

on Oct 08, 2006

Reply #7
News Reporters - translation = News Distorters
Truck Driver - translation = Dumb Redneck.
How could you possible know the laws & rules of your profession?

You got it! That's exactly right (perception-wise)

Never mind that I probably have a better education than the schmuck that wrote the broadcast story.

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