Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 09:12:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Spy plane crash?

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Elspeth Kovar wrote:

> At 04:06 PM 6/22/2005, Mike B. wrote:
>
>> . . . Since most of the public is woefully ignorant on the
>> subject, it would have been nice if the reporter had chosen to educate,
>> rather than mislead.  I did call the station about this, but they didn't
>> seem to think it was a big deal, and the same report aired again later that
>> day.  Personally, given the tone of reporting on gun legislation on NPR and
>> PBS over the years, I figure it was intentional.
>
> Or that communication moved slowly from a local station to whatever
> organization it was buying the report from.  Or the organization didn't
> have clip of automatic gunfire but did have one of machine guns.  Or were
> on a tight enough deadline that they went with the first closest thing.  Or
> that with the story done they decided that the people points needed to
> answer your objection were better used on upcoming stories.  Etc.

Or that it didn't occur to them that a news story didn't need background
sound effects.  Or that they knew it didn't _need_ background sound
effects, but that machine gun fire would get across the political point
they were trying to make without anybody actually uttering an untruth.
Or...

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