[archy]

I can not believe what I just read..

Precisely. Or anything else you hear on the network *news* broadcasts, either.

A young ROTC student of my acquaintance who's a broadcast nes major has gotten immersed in the TV news business, and is horrified to have learned that less than 50% of the stories with whom that reporter has had personal contact with were reported factually or completely. Less than half. I am rarely inclined to suggest to a broadcast journalist that they go into my old print journalism line, where things aren't much better and which is a dying business. But this may be a notable exception, and I suspect we'd gain a pretty good ink-stained wretch to add to our numbers. But you are exactly correct. You cannot, and should not, believe it,

[bondjamesbond]

I am always amazed about how when people see a story in the newspaper that they have personal knowledge of, the first thing out of their mouths is usually "Oh, they got it all wrong!"

Then those same people will pick up the newspaper the next day and believe every word.

Outside of sports scores, I have never read any story in any newspaper about which I have personal, first hand knowledge and been satisfied that they got the story even half right.

And that goes double for TV news.