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Re: Reporters Have Been Dumbed Down Like Everyone Else
Author: Newspaper Addict
Date: 07-04-2012 - 18:53
Holly Gibson Wrote:
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It's a dumb mistake, but
How do you know he is twenty-something? Have you met him in person?
>
> For most twenty-something reporters, trains are
> trains, and why bother to concern oneself with
> "trival" details such as whether or not they're
> light rail, high-speed, diesel-powered or narrow
> gauge?
>
Not just "twenty-something reporters, but also middle-aged political commentators. In an anti-transit rant, Rush Limbaugh described the Minneapolis Hiawatha light rail cars as being red.
> John Q. Public couldn't care less, so why should
> reporters?
It's in the Business & Technology Section. Perhaps the mistake is typical of that department of the newspaper. Does the Seattle Times have a transportation writer? I bet he or she wouldn't make that kind of error.
>
> This is probably the same guy who thinks (and
> reports) that the conductor was the one at the
> controls of the train when it ran over somebody.
> "Engineers" are people who sit at easles and
> design electrical systems.
It's in the Business & Technology Section. Perhaps the mistake is typical of that department of the newspaper. Does the Seattle Times have a transportation writer? I bet he or she wouldn't make that kind of error.
Check out the articles written by the transportation reporters for the Chicago Tribune, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade. They are all very knowledgeable about transportation.
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It's a dumb mistake, but
How do you know he is twenty-something? Have you met him in person?
>
> For most twenty-something reporters, trains are
> trains, and why bother to concern oneself with
> "trival" details such as whether or not they're
> light rail, high-speed, diesel-powered or narrow
> gauge?
>
Not just "twenty-something reporters, but also middle-aged political commentators. In an anti-transit rant, Rush Limbaugh described the Minneapolis Hiawatha light rail cars as being red.
> John Q. Public couldn't care less, so why should
> reporters?
It's in the Business & Technology Section. Perhaps the mistake is typical of that department of the newspaper. Does the Seattle Times have a transportation writer? I bet he or she wouldn't make that kind of error.
>
> This is probably the same guy who thinks (and
> reports) that the conductor was the one at the
> controls of the train when it ran over somebody.
> "Engineers" are people who sit at easles and
> design electrical systems.
It's in the Business & Technology Section. Perhaps the mistake is typical of that department of the newspaper. Does the Seattle Times have a transportation writer? I bet he or she wouldn't make that kind of error.
Check out the articles written by the transportation reporters for the Chicago Tribune, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade. They are all very knowledgeable about transportation.
