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From: steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Misreporting news
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Date: Tue, 30-Oct-84 11:17:47 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 30 11:17:47 1984
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Reply-To: steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton)
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I have been at 4 or 5 events that made the news. On no occasion could I say
that the reports matched the event. In one case the report was exactly
opposite to what actually happened.

(I got a laugh this week from a report in a magazine of a British tv news
report where the commentary said "The miners charged against the police"
over a film of the police charging against the miners).

As a teenager I was a newspaper deliverer (in the UK) and so each day I got
a chance to compare every paper's treatment of stories. It was always amazing
to see how different, even contradictory, they were.