Morgans wrote:
"Rich Ahrens" wrote
What leads you to believe they misreported it? The three parachutes line
is precisely what the witness said. You can see her on the video saying
it. The reporting was accurate. The witness may have been wrong, but
that's an entirely different question.

THAT aspect may have been right, but what else did they mess up?

You tell me. I watched the video. It appeared to me to be a reasonably
well done piece of reporting, going into more detail in background that
a lot of television reporting does. You apparently presume it guilty
without ever viewing it. *That* would be misreporting in my book.

I can't have ?ANY faith in anyone who could write copy with such an
obvious mistake, and not even have an editor catch it, either.

You obviously have no idea how TV news sites like that are put together.
The page in question is essentially a transcript of most of the on-air
report. In part, it may be re-purposed from an on-air script which was
never written to be seen by the public. To call the transcriber a
reporter is inaccurate on your part. At best, he's an editor. Granted, a
faulty one, but that spelling error does not affect the accuracy of the
original reporting. But you didn't criticize the editing in your
original post - you implied that the reporting was inaccurate with no
evidence to back your claim up.

As for the "Looses Finger" story, the only thing written by the station
staff on that would be the headline (which contained the typo). The
story itself came from a wire service. Your painting all reporting by
the station as likely to be inaccurate because of a spelling error in a
headline reveals your own questionable judgment.

Come on, Rich; loose for lose, from a so called journalist? If you
made that mistake, I would think you were stupid. A journalist makes
that mistake, and it gets out to the whole world? I think they are
ignorant.

I think the web staff for most TV station websites are underpaid,
hurried, and only marginally journalists. By the way, you made a
spelling error in the first sentence of the paragraph above, but I'm not
going to assume you're stupid.