Last evening, I watched local channel 13 news at 11 PM, here in Las Vegas.
A story came on that said 206 motorists were ticketed for not yielding to j
walkers. They said that they used an undercover police officer, and then
stopped vehicles that didn't yield.
Film snippets shown during monologue.
On to next story.
Today, in the local paper, they, (AS gpsman SO ANALLY POINTED OUT), they
posted the facts thusly:
"They wrote 116 tickets for that violation[jaywalking], 36 for
driver's license violations, 20 for failure to carry proof of
insurance, 21 for violations of seat-belt and child-restraint laws, 11
for license plate or registration violations, and two others for
miscellaneous offenses."
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2007/Jan-29-Mon-2007/news/
12256723.html
In the newspaper's story, they also said they targeted a posted crosswalk
that was involved in a high profile accident recently. This was not
mentioned in the TV piece.
I am a reasonable man. I would have concluded from the TV snip that 206
tickets were given to motorists for not yielding to pedestrians, otherwise,
why show the footage of the UC j walking, then the motor cop racing after
the car.
The TV snip showed j walking pedestrians, some with babes in arms. No
footage was shown of any j walkers being ticketed.
Now I'm really confused.
I don't know if all the tickets went to the motorists, as the TV snip said,
or some and some, or just what.
I'm becoming an unreasonable man. Particularly when the facts, which speak
for themselves are portrayed in two absolutely different versions.
Ya gotta love today's "news" people.
Steve
Larry Bud - 30 Jan 2007 14:18 GMT
> Last evening, I watched local channel 13 news at 11 PM, here in Las Vegas.
> A story came on that said 206 motorists were ticketed for not yielding to j
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> that was involved in a high profile accident recently. This was not
> mentioned in the TV piece.
Local TV news has about 60 seconds to do a piece like that. They just
can't fit all the info into the time slot they have.
C. E. White - 30 Jan 2007 15:15 GMT
> Local TV news has about 60 seconds to do a piece like that. They
> just
> can't fit all the info into the time slot they have.
So that makes it OK for them to do a bad piece of journalism that
leaves a falase impresssion?
Ask Audi, or Ford, or GM how it feels to be tarred with bad TV
reporting.
Ed
Brent P - 30 Jan 2007 16:14 GMT
>> Local TV news has about 60 seconds to do a piece like that. They
>> just
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> Ask Audi, or Ford, or GM how it feels to be tarred with bad TV
> reporting.
And don't forget susuki with the print media
Larry Bud - 30 Jan 2007 19:31 GMT
On Jan 30, 10:15 am, "C. E. White" <cewhi...@removemindspring.com>
wrote:
> > Local TV news has about 60 seconds to do a piece like that. They
> > just
> > can't fit all the info into the time slot they have.
>
> So that makes it OK for them to do a bad piece of journalism that
> leaves a falase impresssion?
I didn't make any judgement on the story, especially since I didn't
see it. I'm just explaining that you can't fit a news story of
multiple paragraphs into local news.
Steve B - 31 Jan 2007 03:09 GMT
>> Last evening, I watched local channel 13 news at 11 PM, here in Las
>> Vegas.
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> Local TV news has about 60 seconds to do a piece like that. They just
> can't fit all the info into the time slot they have.
I think I could have done it.
Steve
Steve B - 31 Jan 2007 03:13 GMT
> Local TV news has about 60 seconds to do a piece like that. They just
> can't fit all the info into the time slot they have.
And facts are just so b-o-r-i-n-g!
If you think about it, how many facts about an incident could you speak into
a microphone in sixty seconds? Unless it was a complicated issue, I believe
a person can spew a lot of facts in sixty seconds relating to most average
news items.