Well -- at least it flickered...

Like a lot of what was said during the coverage, that was about half right. Television reporters were certainly connecting dots -- lots of dots, some of them seemingly from another planet -- but if journalism is about facts and not hype, then they definitely weren't doing what they were supposed to do.



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My only quibble with Pohovey is the word local. The worst parody of journalism Friday was actually on CNN, where the high-paid-low-rated anchor Paula Zahn speculated, without a jot or tittle of evidence, that the three men were coming to Florida to blow up the Turkey Point nuclear reactor. Now you know why CNN promotes her sex appeal rather than her news judgment.

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The most egregious offender was WSVN 7, where it sounded like the staff had to hold anchors Christine Cruz and Tom Haynes back from storming onto the causeway and personally administering lethal injections to the three detained men they'd already tried and convicted.



And, for the hyping writer of your little piece:

Seconds after the interview ended, Haynes summarized like this: Three men ''talking about driving down to Miami and using some sort of explosive device to blow it up.'' How he read all that into those two simple sentences, I'll never know. Though I'll bet Paula Zahn can tell us.

The interview statement and Haynes’ summation go together like common and sense. What I don’t get is how the writer can’t figure it out. The argument should be that the summation was even aired, without the evidence, and without at least one (1) police statement backing the summation.

No A+ for the Miami Herald, either, though they do receive a passing grade.

Bowser, I now welcome you to the hateful world of “journalism”,
Dan
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Of course you’ll just go on believing all the other “journalistic” presentations that agree with your choice of reality.