Every time I read something in the paper that I have personal knowledge of, there's a mistake.
in Denton County, northwest of Dallas.
The site of the accident is almost exactly one mile due north of the Dallas City limits (not northwest) . And for the record, the City of Dallas does extend into Denton County.
This is true for everybody. It's amazing that anybody believes anything they read.
Yes, and the amazing thing is how those mistakes get reported and re-reported and re-re-reported like a computer virus.
One of my friends is Gene Elston, the former play-by-play voice of the Astros. Last month, he was chosen for the broadcater's equivalent of being elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
The Hall of Fame put out a press release which was then amplified by MLB.com. It said Gene had called Eddie Mathews' 500th homer. Actually, Harry Kalas called the home run because it happened in the fifth inning. Gene did the first two and the last three innings on radio (I have the clip of Kalas' call) and there was no tv for a west coast night game in 1967. They also said he called Nolan Ryan's strikeout that broke Walter Johnson's record in 1983. It's possible he might have done this on television but the clip that survived and MLB.com featured was the radio call by Dewayne Staats. The montage of "famous" Elston calls included calls by Staats and Milo Hamilton.
None of that is to take away from Gene's worthiness for the honor but I was laughing myself silly noting all the mistakes which, of course, found their way into the AP story then ESPN, then CBS, etc, etc.
I've seen a few good write-ups over news I had personal involvement or knowledge in but, more often than not, facts were mispresented or flat-out wrong.