@CTBarrister posted:Mistakes get made in news articles all the time. I never take anything I read to the bank. In the 24 hour news cycle it's who gets the story published that counts, and often the facts must be damned. I once saw a historical piece on UConn's basketball team which had a blatant factual error in it left up for weeks on CBS's website, with no correction ever being made. I kept checking back to see if the correction would be made and it never was.
On another note, I read the New Haven Register daily and it's stunning to me the amount of corrections they have to print on a daily basis.
On yet another note, a reporter for another local publication once wrote an article on a foreclosure sale I did, which was newsworthy only because 2 houses on the same sleepy street in the Morris Cove section of New Haven were being auctioned on the same day at the same time, almost across the street from each other. That and it was a slow news day. I was a bit more friendly and talkative with the reporter than the Committee who was assigned to do the other auction. I explained to the reporter that I would file a report with the Court on the result of the auction and that it was subject to Court approval (which does not happen until some weeks later). However, the story he published the next day made it sound like it was a done deal then and there, something a few knowledgeable readers excoriated him on in the comments section to his article. These mistakes happen because nobody edits worth a damn, the stories are rushed to print, and quite frankly the dude did not take very good notes when he interviewed me, because I told him the sale was subject to Court approval, and he did not report it.
Hahaa!!! You are soo funny! I never knew that stuff happens. I cannot believe that the media does crap like that.