Originally Posted by
jungle
We spot these kinds of errors immediately, and so do others in many areas of expertise, the plain fact is that media is often negligent, often wrong and often has no interest in the truth or the story.
Their job is to create filler, content and sell ads. Their last concern is the quality of that content, if the truth conflicts with their opinion you will be rapidly steered away from the story.
To add to this.....The desire to be the "first" to break a story has overshadowed the routine importance of fact checking the credibility and accuracy of a news story. Sensationalizing and reporting, just for the sake of reporting, is the name of the game. I think we give way too much freedom and flexibility to media outlets when they continuous get a pass by writing a page three retraction one week later or going on air to apologize for being given bad information.
Just look at the Asiana fake pilot names broadcast....I mean how dense can you be to not pick up on that. The media has become an industry of dolts who feed off their own reporting inaccuracies.