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Originally posted by bethany1982
As far as the "reporting the liberal bias" goes, they have not wandered too far from their roots.
I heard the CNN based suicide report on the radio too, but anyone can make a mistake. I read the same thing on a net based news source.
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I'm not sure what liberal or conservative have to do with reporting a fatal accident. I kind of wish we didn't politicize so much in this forum.
It is a sad truth that more and more media are using, and assuming to be fact, reports from other media without checking out the story themselves. It is, unfortunately, a symptom of "getting it on first" in our highly competitive, highly stressed electronic journalistic climate. It is also a symptom of those young journalists I mentioned above. Twenty years ago, nobody would have taken anything aired by another station, or even appearing in a newspaper as truth without checking it out themselves -- even if they attribute the story to the other media. Even if it took those precious extra minutes.