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?”
More proof the vermin media will put anything on the air to avoid reporting little barry bastard boy’s impeachable criminality.
Because the Beijing traffic jam isn’t Obunga’s responsibility....Benghazi WAS and IS!
Duh, use up air time with fluff so they won’t have to report on hussein.
What is the background of this photo?
I put more trust in the turd I flushed down the commode than any word coming from her mouth.
Long before home computers the govt was spying on us. Online before web sites, when they started I could actually count the number of every day's sites at Yahoo's "New Sites" category.
But now there are so many websites it's possible that no one knows exactly how many there are; even the govt might only be capable of estimating it.
But those are computers. You can be certain that not one single Dem knows a fraction of what's online because they still talk like we're all ignorant when a lot of us are onto them and seeing them as horrid fools.
Inauguration night 2009...either drunk on booze or Obama love.
A three-year-old story reported as new?
Let me guess... ABC thought that George Bush was driving below the speed limit again?
-PJ
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