Tuesday, December 06, 2005

AND YOU KNOW IT

Wasn't it the Today Show that had a reporter "swamped" in torrential flooding in Wayne this past October? The flooding was so bad that she needed to canoe her way through the town, while two construction workers walked by unfazed by the trickling waters.

This is almost as bad.

We always thought that news agencies were supposed to report the news accurately. In fact, we could swear that the news is supposed to be accurate, brief and clear. ABC. Huh. We've heard this somewhere. We think it may have been Journalism 101.

Why the rant, you ask?

Howard Stern is not the first shock jock to go to satellite radio, Sirius or otherwise.

We don't need to go into who (who) is, or how long they've been doing it. Or the goodness they've brought our lives in the last 14 months. But it's worth saying: get the story right. This ain't rocket science.

Tell 'em, Fred.

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