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There Is an Embarrassing Problem With This ABC ‘World News’ Report…
The Blaze ^ | 9/6/13 | Jason Howerton

Posted on 09/07/2013 8:59:22 AM PDT by Impala64ssa

Diane Sawyer and her ABC News team gave critics of the mainstream media even more ammunition after Sawyer reported on a three-year-old story as if it were current during “World News” on Thursday evening.

The story was about a massive Chinese traffic jam outside Beijing “now entering its third week.” After noting that traffic had come to a standstill and people were eating noodles on the roadside, Sawyer reported that the jam would end on around Sept. 17 following the completion of scheduled construction.

The huge problem? The original report is from August 2010 snip

Mediaite’s Andrew Kirell calls the gaffe “one of the goofier examples of sloppy journalism,” which may be putting it kindly. He explains how the mistake may have happened:

The only 2013-dated articles on this “traffic jam” appear on the India Times website and on The Daily Beast’s “Cheat Sheet” link dump. The former’s write-up says the traffic has been ongoing for only nine days, so clearly that’s not the source. And given the Beast’s popularity in America, this little blurb could be where ABC first spotted the story:

It seems as though the Beast mistook the story to be current, but later updated their link-out with a correction: “Editor’s note: The traffic jam described in this news summary occured [sic] in August 2010.”

So let’s assume an ABC producer found the story there, but saw it before the Beast updated to reflect the actual date. They would still have had to completely ignore the time and date on the actual CBC article containing many of the details Sawyer reported on air.

Further, given the multiple sources the report likely required, one of the show’s producers probably looked at several other articles on the traffic jam and somehow missed those 2010 time stamps as well.

Kirell concludes with one more fair, unanswered question: “Who obtained those photographs of the Chinese traffic jam without noticing they were from 2010?”


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abxnews; dbm; journalism; lsm; media
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To: Tupelo

Diane Sawyer has always been a liberal tool. Didn’t she work for the Democrats in congress during the Watergate investigation?


21 posted on 09/07/2013 9:44:53 AM PDT by dowcaet
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To: Impala64ssa

Roger Maris


22 posted on 09/07/2013 9:50:08 AM PDT by Rider on the Rain
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To: Impala64ssa
You've got to understand that the people putting together newscasts, the producers, are generally in their early 20s to early 30s, and don't know sh*t about sh*t. Especially at your local news station, the producer of your 5:00 newscast may be a 22 year old dumba** just out of his or her government indoctrination mill, aka college.

The producer is responsible for everything that goes in the newscast...compiling reporters' stories and building them into the rundown, writing "voice overs", which are stories the anchor merely reads while the video is rolling, and finding voice overs from the network feed to run. Probably what happened here is some dumba** know nothing 25 year old who got their job at network because of nepotism, didn't think to check the date on the traffic jam story, because they needed a story to fit the international news segment, and that one fit the bill.

Anchors, like Diane Sawyer, are nothing more than talking heads. If you can get them to read their scripts before they go on the air, you're lucky. Their expertise is with filling time, and either speeding up or slowing down their delivery as the producer talks in their IFB (earpiece) from the control room, keeping them apprised of how much time is left before the next commercial break. Not that the anchors listen to the producer...they're far more important, you know.

In short, no one in the newsroom, except for a few grizzled old editors that people don't listen to anyway, know anything about what's actually going on. The FReeper who said the only real journalism going on these days are blogs and the foreign press, is spot on right.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

23 posted on 09/07/2013 9:53:21 AM PDT by wku man (It's almost deer season, got your DEERGOGGLES on yet? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jexrnFq2fXY)
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To: Impala64ssa; Darksheare




24 posted on 09/07/2013 10:05:01 AM PDT by Lady Jag (If you can't make them see the light, let them feel the heat. - Reagan)
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To: Lancey Howard
"(and Diane Sawyer is probably the most unwatchable of the bunch)"

Truth. She constantly looks like she needs to drink an entire bottle of laxative and spend some significant time on "da throne" (severely constipated).

25 posted on 09/07/2013 10:06:16 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog
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To: Impala64ssa

I like ABC’s new ad campaign. “If you don’t watch ABC, you are uninformed. If you do watch ABC, you are misinformed”.


26 posted on 09/07/2013 10:07:23 AM PDT by Lawgvr1955 (You can never have too much cowbell !!)
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To: Rider on the Rain

OOPS! I stand corrected.


27 posted on 09/07/2013 10:16:26 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: saganite
Let me fix that for you...

News reporting in the US mainstream media consists of trolling LEFTIST WEBSITES ON the Internet for stories and repeating administration talking points.

28 posted on 09/07/2013 10:18:34 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: Lady Jag

Yeah, it’s harder to spout crap and get away with it.
Hence their efforts to curtail or control it.


29 posted on 09/07/2013 10:22:28 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Lancey Howard

I watch ABC news for about 3 minutes every week. And FReepers who watch at that same time know exactly what I am talking about.

Definitely appointment TV.


30 posted on 09/07/2013 10:28:34 AM PDT by LurkingSince1943 (Former War Criminal)
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To: Rider on the Rain
Kirk Gibson

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31 posted on 09/07/2013 10:29:54 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: rigelkentaurus; neverdem; narses; SunkenCiv; MHGinTN

Nah. Three years to get news from China???

Even in the 1870’s a clipper chip could make it from China to England in one hundred days!


32 posted on 09/07/2013 10:31:10 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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33 posted on 09/07/2013 10:31:47 AM PDT by narses
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To: wku man

I call them news readers, no more no less.


34 posted on 09/07/2013 10:48:08 AM PDT by sheana
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To: hattend

Sto Ree Ohld is in charge of fact checking at ABC.


35 posted on 09/07/2013 10:56:44 AM PDT by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: Impala64ssa
There Is an Embarrassing Problem With This ABC ‘World News’ Report…

When ABC claims to have a "News" organization, it is wildly inaccurate reporting.

36 posted on 09/07/2013 10:56:48 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Raghead killing raghead. Who am I to stop them, and what's the downside?)
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To: Impala64ssa

In other words they reported something they read on the internet on a network newscast instead of getting their own crew there.

Why does network news still exist anyway?


37 posted on 09/07/2013 11:04:31 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: Impala64ssa

Even if this story were not 3 years old, why does ABC give a Beijing traffic jam more news time than, say, the Benghazi scandal?


38 posted on 09/07/2013 11:08:27 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant
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To: Impala64ssa

39 posted on 09/07/2013 11:08:56 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Wonder Warthog

The medical term for the lady’s condition is: anal retentive. Behind those colored contacts, her eyes are BROWN.

It works like the sight tube on a coffee urn.


40 posted on 09/07/2013 11:09:15 AM PDT by Tucker39
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