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Re: Railroad Newsline-Transit in LA is 10x better than ten years ago?
Author: E
Date: 05-21-2008 - 16:24
I've seen this happen dozens of times:
Reporter/reporterette shows up at a rail event of some kind. Can be print or radio or TV.
Asks questions of a few of the folks involved, most of whom answer courteously, factually, without slang or jargon, even when the questions are painfully inane. They speak slowly and carefully, asking said reporter/reporterette if they understand what's been said.
Once the interviews are complete, reporter/reporterette then seeks out the most ignorant, loudmouthed, slovenly goober within a 500 yard radius; always someone who is not associated in any way, shape or form with the subject at hand, but who wants to "be somebody." As soon as the notebook comes out and/or the camera is started and the mic is shoved in his face, this waste of oxygen starts expounding on all sorts of details and stories, none of which are remotely true and should be obvious fabrications to anyone with an IQ above that of a manhole cover.
Guess which interview (and ridiculous information) gets featured in the paper and on the tube??
Yep. That's how you get to see stinking drunks bloviating about how the SP 4294 pulled Teddy Roosevelt's funeral train through Alaska and how he and his father and his mother helped build the SP&S 700 in Florida in 1920. And worse.
Trying to give good information to a reporter who just got out of school last week is a waste of time. They don't know and don't care.
Reporter/reporterette shows up at a rail event of some kind. Can be print or radio or TV.
Asks questions of a few of the folks involved, most of whom answer courteously, factually, without slang or jargon, even when the questions are painfully inane. They speak slowly and carefully, asking said reporter/reporterette if they understand what's been said.
Once the interviews are complete, reporter/reporterette then seeks out the most ignorant, loudmouthed, slovenly goober within a 500 yard radius; always someone who is not associated in any way, shape or form with the subject at hand, but who wants to "be somebody." As soon as the notebook comes out and/or the camera is started and the mic is shoved in his face, this waste of oxygen starts expounding on all sorts of details and stories, none of which are remotely true and should be obvious fabrications to anyone with an IQ above that of a manhole cover.
Guess which interview (and ridiculous information) gets featured in the paper and on the tube??
Yep. That's how you get to see stinking drunks bloviating about how the SP 4294 pulled Teddy Roosevelt's funeral train through Alaska and how he and his father and his mother helped build the SP&S 700 in Florida in 1920. And worse.
Trying to give good information to a reporter who just got out of school last week is a waste of time. They don't know and don't care.
