Yesterday at my ABC/CNN TV station internship a woman called me on the phone crying. Her son had died in a car accident and my station had played it many times on the news. She had just seen it and was yelling at me for not showing it sooner. I thought this was a little strange, but I told her we had shown it earlier and that this was an update.
Anyway, what it really comes down to is ethics. Each of the broadcasts I've watched there has been at least one mistake. In the newspaper world we correct them in the next issue, in broadcast they just seem to be too proud to admit on air, or at all, that they mess up occasionally. By occasionally I mean on a regular basis. I find this disgusting, too many people rely on our broadcasts to be issuing incorrect statements.
I'm thoroughly disappointed.
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