Tuesday 22 August 2017

Its not new news that the news media get things wrong


In my opinion the media rarely report anything accurately (probably because they are rushing).  Every time something I have known about directly has been in the papers, the coverage has not been complete or accurate.

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  1. Exactly my experience. A least three events, which I had firsthand knowledge of, and which made the news were so incorrectly reported that they were unrecognizable as the events I experienced. In one case, my husband was quoted making a very inflammatory comment; but he never spoke those words. I was sitting beside him at the time of the supposed remarks and knew he did not say this. Upon confronting the reporter who was RECORDING the event, I was able to get a retraction ..... buried so deep in the paper I am sure no one read it.

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  2. We sat in on a Parliamentary session in Canberra years ago where there was a heated discussion. Later we all watched it on the news and couldn't believe how biased & skewed the report was - almpst in direct opposition to what we saw and heard. A good lesson for us at the time!

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