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It is possible -- maybe even probable -- that journalist have always been mostly ignorant gits. It does seem that way now. And it is not all the fault of corporate interference with the news. Sometimes it is a flashy display of sheer stupidity.
This morning, on KPBS radio, a local story was reported as "Mount Solidad Cross supporters were again told to remove the cross from public land." The only factual piece of that headline was Mount Solidad Cross. The facts of the story were never revealed in the news bit at all. Here's what really happened. The fate of the cross rests on the outcome of a series of appeals. State courts and now federal courts have ordered it removed. What happened yesterday was this: A 3-judge panel of the 9th Circuit, who had previously ruled against a procedural motion on the appeal brought by the cross supporters, ruled against a request to have the motion heard by the full court.
In other words, there really wasn't a story here at all. No story, so KPBS made something up that sounded important and delivered in in an inflammatory way with their incompetent morning "host."
This is not an isolated incident. Every morning there is at least one story that is so badly reported that the facts are completely wrong or there are no facts delivered at all.
And they wonder why I stopped giving money to my local Public Broadcasting station.
An NPR story this morning talked about Cain an his flat tax proposal. They aired a one sentence Bachmann quote as a "tax lawyer's response." Her sentence was a mixed metaphor that contained no information. Guys, that is NOT news.
This morning, on KPBS radio, a local story was reported as "Mount Solidad Cross supporters were again told to remove the cross from public land." The only factual piece of that headline was Mount Solidad Cross. The facts of the story were never revealed in the news bit at all. Here's what really happened. The fate of the cross rests on the outcome of a series of appeals. State courts and now federal courts have ordered it removed. What happened yesterday was this: A 3-judge panel of the 9th Circuit, who had previously ruled against a procedural motion on the appeal brought by the cross supporters, ruled against a request to have the motion heard by the full court.
In other words, there really wasn't a story here at all. No story, so KPBS made something up that sounded important and delivered in in an inflammatory way with their incompetent morning "host."
This is not an isolated incident. Every morning there is at least one story that is so badly reported that the facts are completely wrong or there are no facts delivered at all.
And they wonder why I stopped giving money to my local Public Broadcasting station.
An NPR story this morning talked about Cain an his flat tax proposal. They aired a one sentence Bachmann quote as a "tax lawyer's response." Her sentence was a mixed metaphor that contained no information. Guys, that is NOT news.
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