It’s not as if other agencies haven’t been saying “oops” on more consequential topics lately.
so confused…the national news with the largest viewership stages something and yes TMZ reported on it …are you questioning that the story is valid. some other news outlets have since reported on it too. sadly you can say TMZ should not be the leader in exposing this kind of stuff. but, you sound more like your excusing or apologizing for ABC news behavior. if a fake crime scene does not bother you and some others too that is in a shame hopefully abc news would have stronger ethics than some of the folks do responding to this.
They didn’t fake a crime scene. That was the field where the crime took place. Does putting up crime scene tape negate that it was indeed the crime scene?
No, putting up tape does not change any facts about the story reported. That was the field were the crime took place.
I suppose because of the tape you believe no crime was committed there and the story is bogus? A simple yes or no will do.
Where are your other “oops” thread? It’s obviously a big deal to you or is it only selective “oops” you start threads on?
it is pointless to discuss anything with a person who has no problem with the journalist using props to create a scene. if you have no issue with it and see some other motive …I just hope you are not a journalist or teach journalism. I am puzzled by you circling the wagons over this behavior at the network with the largest viewership.
I saw an interesting story and you see some conspiracy or something. have a nice day.
thankfully at least after ABC got exposed by CNN they suspended the producer.
http://www.thewrap.com/abc-news-fake-crime-scene/
p.s.
emilybee if a journalist is caught making a fake crime scene…no I will not believe anything they have to say about that story or anything else they have reported on.(how could I or anybody else trust in them?)
Its rigged, rigged I say…
:^o
Putting up the tape for effect may have not been the best of judgment, but it doesn’t negate the story. This seems like a big “so what”. As they say in the media, if it bleeds, it leads. Not surprising that someone wanted to make the visual a little more interesting than a shot of a chain link fence and a field. Not saying its right. Just saying its understandable.
SMH…
@zobroward,
“if a journalist is caught making a fake crime scene…no I will not believe anything they have to say about that story or anything else they have reported on.(how could I or anybody else trust in them?)”
So you don’t believe the story is true, gotcha.
You should tell the man who confessed he didn’t do a thing and the story is made up. Maybe offer yourself up as a defense witness. I’m sure he’d appreciate it.
Feel free to keep shaking your head @zobroward. Maybe it’ll shake things up there. If a blind person were listening to the audio of the report, would it have made the report any more/less valid? SMH too.
Frankly, dressing up a remote is like the proverbial “lipstick on a pig”. If the ex-scene adds nada to the story then tell it from the studio mr/ms producer.
She didn’t “fake a crime scene.” She stood by a prop, away from the scene, for dramatic effect. And she didn’t stage the police either.
So you want to what? Dispute the crime because of the prop? Just change channels.
@lookingforward I have failed to perfect the ability to “unsee” and “unfeel”. Working on it. There are other threads to read as well.
Critical thinking is a good thing. Too many linked articles on on CC, imo, that fly off the handle about something or other, hardly vetted (if at all,) just bait.
Think about it. What’s the point?
I agree it doesn’t distract from the truth of the story (assuming they did report the story correctly). But I do think it wasn’t a good call. A journalist wants to be perceived as honest and doing this hurts that perception. And as I stated earlier, what is the point? As a viewer I’m not going to care whether the reporter is right next to the crime scene (i.e. can see the tape) or not.
So are you saying that faked police tape is as bad as the Duke lacrosse story? That it’s as bad as saying Obama is a Muslim born in Kenya?
I will agree that putting up the tape as a backdrop is a boneheaded, unethical move. But if we were to rate journalistic malfeasance on a 1-10 scale, it’s a 2 IMHO. Duke lacrosse and my other example are a 10.
In the case of the tape, it simply makes the reporter and producer look like dolts, but the story is still true. In the other cases you get millions of people fervently believing something completely wrong and malicious (sometimes for years) and reputations ruined. Express disbelief all you want at people not finding those things equivalent, but you’ll find yourself in a tiny minority. There are many other websites you can go to if you’re looking for people that fervently share your perspective, however.
The news media industry in general is just not trustworthy anymore. The political propaganda, manipulation, lies, and spin just make me sick to my stomach, and this election season has highlighted the very worst of all of it. Even fact-based articles are often subtly worded in such a way to influence the reader, ideologically, one way or another.
I have said duke lacrosse is a stain on the media, the university a large group of professors , the police department and the prosecutor. that travesty is a lesson for all of us on so many levels. I have mentioned duke lacrosee many times over the years. that said because duke lacrosse was beyond words does not mean this story is somehow ok. they are not correlated. are you saying shoplifting is not as bad as armed robbery…sure…but ethics of a journalists should be 100% 24/7/365. like I said i see many people do not agree.
as for duke…the media aside (they really really dropped the ball)…the prosecutor went to jail for 1 day. crystal magnum was not charged (she however is now in jail for homicide) no professors/administrators were fired. the school paid out the lacrosse coach and the lacrosse players. and duke bulldozed the home “for structural” reasons.
of course UVA and rolling stone had a lawsuit…the first I am sure of several. but duke was a lesson on to itself.
Some studio news runs a backdrop of crime tape, during some reporting. It’s just a visual. I don’t lose sleep worrying that they mean the studio is the crime scene, lol.
I am glad the network was called out on it – this is not the sort of thing anyone would want to take root. If it is not corralled it could become a problem.
But I agree that it really is a big zip in terms of the actual story. They put up a piece of tape in front of the field where the crime took place, likely because they could not get closer to the exact area because of police and investigator activity.
I wonder how they got the police tape??? It says “Sheriff’s Line Do Not Cross.” Not like they sell that sort of thing in Lowe’s or Home Depot. Seems like someone from the Sheriff’s office gave it to them.
Lol. Amazon has it.