Thank GOD, I got out of the news reporting business and retired. All they ever wanted was hype, hype, hype. They thrive on this stuff. Honestly, ratings go through the roof during this kind of hostile time. Helps them sell advertising in the future.
Yeah, it's disgusting! One of the newsguys I work with has been having a field day scaring people with West Nile, genetically engineered food, and dozens of other subjects.
He has no trouble with making HUGE leaps of (il)logic, then passing his speculations on as fact. Just the other day in Pittsburgh's East End a rapist was shot by the woman he was attacking. Our newsguy immediately linked him to another series of rapes in the same area even though it was obvious through the MO and description it WAS NOT the same rapist.
He later had to retract.
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