Re: Failure To Report.

Paul Davenport Wrote:
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>
> I don't have a problem with criticizing a news
> story or the reporter who wrote it or the editor
> who edited it or the entity that published it. I'm
> a journalist and I do that myself all the time, as
> do many other journalists I know. But I suggest
> some recalibration is in order before labeling the
> perceived shortcomings of one article (or even a
> bunch of articles) as "standard fare of all
> reporters today" (boldface emphasis added).

Paul,

I read world wide and the problem is endemic. The local paper has three reporters left in the city to cover the local stuff since it was assimilated into the Fairfax hole. Two out of the three have been at the local park railway while I was there, what was told to them and what they wrote was different, inaccurate and backarsewards. They have no comprehension these days about anything, no technical understanding and ability to use of technical terms and very poor vocabularies. The same applies to your end of the world as well, just reading the same dribble in another publication where the reporter was on about the D&Sng writing coal train, oil train and diesel train all in the one sentence.

From your stance to my basement judgement, it sounds like you consider yourself in the 1% and all power to you for that.
Being PC about it though, only serves to legitimise this slackness.