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To: Ramius
What, were they accessing a different reality, or just pulling it straight out of their collective fundaments?
508 posted on 03/08/2005 6:21:08 PM PST by Bear_in_RoseBear
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear; RosieCotton
just pulling it straight out of their collective fundaments?

You'd think they could get it right, since they're not really even that far away. But it is right up there with every other observation I've ever made of news media "accuracy". Every *single* time I've ever had inside or onsite information of something that was reported in the news there has been at least one *material* error or omission that would cast the event in a materially different light. For example: A particular rescue of a big tugboat off the coast of Oregon... was reported in the local paper. They got the name of the boat wrong, the names of the crew wrong, the dates wrong, and the basic nature of their steerage problem wrong. Lucky they had a picture of the boat, or we wouldn't have thought it was the same story.

515 posted on 03/08/2005 6:32:34 PM PST by Ramius (Hmmm... yeah, that'd be great...)
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