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Re: Reporters Have Been Dumbed Down Like Everyone Else
Author: fkrock
Date: 07-06-2012 - 09:13

This whole thread is another example of reporter bashing by people who know very little about the news business.

1. Reporters must cover a variety of stories. They cannot be experts in everything. A reporter may cover a story about a new medical discovery, a politician running for local office, a fire, and a trasportation story all in the same day.
2. Reporters are on deadline. The story must be submitted on time. This allows very little time for fact checking. Reporters do the best they can to be accurate but sometimes their sources are not correct.
3. Reporters do NOT write headlines for their stories. Editors write them. Editors cannot be experts on everything. For example, the reporter might have written "lighter railroad schedules in China may......" that got compressed into "light rail" to fit into available space. Do you really expect everyone to understand "light rail" the same way we do? Over the years I have seen many more much worse examples of headlines that don't fit the story.

Been there. Done that.

So how 'bout cutting reporter some slack.

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  "Journalist" by name of Joshua Freed S 07-04-2012 - 07:20
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  Is there a point to all this? MG42 07-04-2012 - 14:45
  Re: Is there a point to all this? Mommy 07-04-2012 - 15:14
  Re: Is there a point to all this? MG42 07-04-2012 - 16:43
  Re: Is there a point to all this? MG42 07-04-2012 - 17:05
  Re: Is there a point to all this? smitty195 07-05-2012 - 04:06
  Reporters Have Been Dumbed Down Like Everyone Else Holly Gibson 07-04-2012 - 17:13
  Re: Reporters Have Been Dumbed Down Like Everyone Else MG42 07-04-2012 - 17:24
  Re: Reporters Have Been Dumbed Down Like Everyone Else led light boxes 09-25-2012 - 23:58
  Re: Reporters Have Been Dumbed Down Like Everyone Else Newspaper Addict 07-04-2012 - 18:53
  Re: Reporters Have Been Dumbed Down Like Everyone Else Michael Mahoney 07-05-2012 - 15:27
  Re: Reporters Have Been Dumbed Down Like Everyone Else Graham Buxton 07-05-2012 - 16:07
  Re: Reporters Have Been Dumbed Down Like Everyone Else Holly Gibson 07-05-2012 - 17:08
  Re: Reporters Have Been Dumbed Down Like Everyone Else fkrock 07-06-2012 - 09:13
  Re: Reporters Have Been Dumbed Down Like Everyone Else Holly Gibson 07-06-2012 - 13:40
  Re: Reporters Have Been Dumbed Down Like Everyone Else Dr Zarkoff 07-06-2012 - 20:57
  Re: Reporters Have Been Dumbed Down Like Everyone Else Michael Mahoney 07-06-2012 - 17:53
  Re: Reporters Have Been Dumbed Down Like Everyone Else Chuck, former reporter and newspaper 07-07-2012 - 17:42
  Re: Reporters Have Been Dumbed Down Like Everyone Else Newspaper Addict 07-07-2012 - 18:54
  Re: Reporters Have Been Dumbed Down Like Everyone Else fkrock 07-08-2012 - 07:49
  Re: Reporters Have Been Dumbed Down Like Everyone Else OldPoleBurner 07-09-2012 - 10:29


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