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A
few nights ago, my wife and I were watching the 10 p.m. newscast on [KSPR] when
we heard the anchor report that there have been no confirmed cases of the [West Nile Virus] in Missouri so far this year, according to the [CDC]. We looked at each with a befuddled look on
our faces almost immediately. For we
were both sure that we had heard otherwise, and a visit to the CDC website a
couple of hours later [confirmed] our suspicions.
Ah,
but I took a gentle approach when I sent an email to the anchor. For I asked if we may have misunderstood what
she was reporting.
Well,
I didn’t receive an email back from the anchor, but she did pass on my email to
the lovely and talented Ms. [Mary Maloney], who did email me back. As it turned out, Mary had actually written
the copy for the piece on mosquitoes threatening to take over [Nixa], and I was
delighted with her freely admitting that all of the facts had not been
rechecked before going on the air with a story that KSPR had obtained some of
from one of their news partners. I was
also delighted with her expressing a desire to get things as right as possible,
and I thanked her for wanting to be more than just another very pretty on-air
personality.
Yeah,
she might have been just shining me on.
For on the very next night, it was reported that a judge had ruled that
Apple and Samsung had both infringed upon each other’s patents, and that Apple
would be owing Samsung a tidy sum of money, which left me with another
befuddled look on my face after hearing from CNBC and several other news
outlets a day or so earlier that Apple had clearly won in their lawsuit against
Samsung over [patent infringements], but Mary may have had nothing to do with
that KSPR report.
Just
in case I have left you with a befuddled look of your own, there wouldn’t have
been any confusion with the KSPR piece if it had of just included some
context. For the KSPR anchor was
reporting on a ruling made by a [South Korean court], which came after the
ruling for Apple in an [American court], which is what I had been hearing about
before.
Evidently,
the markets don’t hold much stock in the South Korean ruling. For the price for Samsung stock [plummeted]
anyway.
In
any event, I have no doubt that Mary has some work ahead of her in the fight
against misinformation, and I am afraid that she will not be able to get very
far with it. For it couldn’t have become
as bad as it has without someone higher up on the management ladder being
asleep in front of the monitor. We’ll be
watching to see how it goes.
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It is futile to try to analyze, much less argue with, TV "anchors'" reading of the news. They know nothing of what they read. Their job is to read and smile or look sad at the appropriate places. Same holds true for newspaper stories. All are simply taken off "wires" or written by teenaged news producers in the back room. Add this to the fact that they don't care: the automobile commercials are the only thing that counts with local TV news.
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid the Samsung deal is even worse than you report. Here's what I heard. Samsung, a South Korean company, was being sued for patent infringement by Apple, a quasi-American company, in Japan (trying to get Japan to block a few of Samsung's products from being sold in Japan. The decision was by a Japanese judge, over a narrow issue, and was in favor of Samsung as far as this case goes. I know you don't lose any sleep over either of these things, any more than I lose sleep over them, but they are interesting from the point of view of how inaccurate our news sources usually are... and I think your post brought out how we no longer seem to concentrate on the important things in life, like getting rid of Obama. Heh.
Thanks for stopping by again, my dear Max!!! No, you will not persuade from this crusade of mine to shame newscasters into actually trying to understand what they are supposed to be covering. For after I set my mind to endeavor to persevere, I am going to endeavor to persevere. (Yeah, I know what that means. I looked it up and everything!)
ReplyDeleteIn regards to Apple vs. Samsung, it sounds like the Japanese court took a similar position to the Korean one. I haven't checked to see if there are any rulings pending in Europe. Since they have become unionized, it may be that the case will only be heard before a EU sanctioned court. Now, if that case ends up like the Asian ones, it might get really interesting. For ss it stands now, "they" are saying that the secondary American ruling may have Samsung owing Apple over $3 billion and having to remove a bunch of their smart phones and tablets from American selves, which will really wreck havoc with the Samsung stock price--not to mention the stock prices of the phone companies associated more with Android systems than Apple's, but if the EU court rules in favor of Samsung, the case might wind up in a virtual tie, which would send Apple's stock price a-tumbling down. Why any of this is of interest to me, I don't have a clue.
I wish that I could get away with being wrong as often as newscasters and weathermen
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by again, my dear Ann!!! Me too, but I have Arlynda as a managing director, Making it worse is that none of our varmints see any shame in ratting me out for a treat or two.
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