http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/09/...ld-news-report/

This is hilarious. What a bunch of mindless dopes...

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Diane Sawyer and her ABC News team gave critics of the mainstream media even more ammunition after Sawyer reported on a three-year-old story as if it were current during “World News” on Thursday evening.

The story was about a massive Chinese traffic jam outside Beijing “now entering its third week.” After noting that traffic had come to a standstill and people were eating noodles on the roadside, Sawyer reported that the jam would end on around Sept. 17 following the completion of scheduled construction.

The huge problem? The original report is from August 2010. Watch ABC’s mistaken report below:

Mediaite’s Andrew Kirell calls the gaffe “one of the goofier examples of sloppy journalism,” which may be putting it kindly. He explains how the mistake may have happened:

The only 2013-dated articles on this “traffic jam” appear on the India Times website and on The Daily Beast’s “Cheat Sheet” link dump. The former’s write-up says the traffic has been ongoing for only nine days, so clearly that’s not the source. And given the Beast’s popularity in America, this little blurb could be where ABC first spotted the story:

It seems as though the Beast mistook the story to be current, but later updated their link-out with a correction: “Editor’s note: The traffic jam described in this news summary occured [sic] in August 2010.”
ABCs Diane Sawyer Reports on Three Year Old Chinese Traffic Jam Story

(Screengrab via Mediaite)

So let’s assume an ABC producer found the story there, but saw it before the Beast updated to reflect the actual date. They would still have had to completely ignore the time and date on the actual CBC article containing many of the details Sawyer reported on air.

Further, given the multiple sources the report likely required, one of the show’s producers probably looked at several other articles on the traffic jam and somehow missed those 2010 time stamps as well.

Kirell concludes with one more fair, unanswered question: “Who obtained those photographs of the Chinese traffic jam without noticing they were from 2010?”

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We can't underestimate the problems that stupid and lazy journalist have caused this nation. It's easy for one person, no matter how smart, to be fooled. However, a staff of highly paid editors who don't bother to do basic factchecking, well, what's the point of paying them. The sad thing is I don't think anybody is going to suffer even a chewing out for this.

As one poster wrote,"Diane looks great for a woman that's 167 years old."

Yup, pretty sad !!

Plenty to report on a total Obama meltdown .....but a story about him might matter or something !!

Glad, the "meaningless" low info ...blew up for them !!

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Yup, pretty sad !!

Plenty to report on a total Obama meltdown .....but a story about him might matter or something !!

Glad, the "meaningless" low info ...blew up for them !!

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Quote: Frank Cannon wrote in post #5

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Actually, I was surprised by who was the anchor of this show. It has been so long since I have seen it that I thought they still had Charlie Gibson doing it.

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I think one of the three dinosaur networks should dig up J. Fred Muggs, Dave Garroway's sidekick, and make him the anchor.



He'd be a definite improvement - in talent, intelligence, and attractiveness - over any of the empty suits who reside there now.

Quote: W-Girl wrote in post #6

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Ohhhh BTW, Katie Couric is gone too. Just in case you didn't know .............

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Yes, Connie is gone too !!
Guess it is safe to say, you must get all your news from Megyn !!