Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Getting it wrong

Here is another thing ABC got wrong in its reporting on the Aurora massacre. When Holmes' mother told an ABC reporter "Yes, you have the right person," she was referring to herself as being the mother of James Holmes.

ABC's Brian Ross was the one who tied Holmes to the Tea Party, when the actual Tea Party member whose name is James Holmes is a man in his fifties.

Update: Go here to see the Jon Stewart video in which Stewart scathingly indicts ABC and Brian Ross:  http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jon-stewart-tears-apart-abc%E2%80%99s-brian-ross-for-false-tea-party-report-on-aurora-shooter/

Update 2: The blogger at In From the Cold remembers a time when a journalist cared about "getting it right." http://formerspook.blogspot.com/2012/07/when-journalism-was.html

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