Dumb News Reporting! Friday a perhaps 19 y old on a bike grabbed from behind a 16 y old girl walking to school ... the girl screamed and the boy jumped on his bike and rode off. The...

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

Friday a perhaps 19 y old on a bike grabbed from behind a 16 y old girl walking to school ... the girl screamed and the boy jumped on his bike and rode off.

The police investigator said that the boys motivation was unknown ... if it was an attempted theft (back pack for I-Pad etc) or a possible abduction.

Question: The young boy was on a bike ... how do you abduct someone if you are riding a bicycle?? There are so many dumb reports. Do you have any examples?

Tea8 Loc: Where the wind comes sweeping down the plain.

Yeah but if he was trying to abduct her he might have decided to ditch the bike. Not to long ago we had a young man, I can't remember his age now maybe 14 or so, walk up behind a girl at the bus stop and grabbed her. The girl was 13 or 14, I think, and he started to haul her off right from the bus stop in a neighborhood. He was even taking her though backyards. Well the girl was screaming and luckily a woman happened to glance out her window and see him taking the girl headed towards her backyard. The woman ran out the back door and started yelling at him and he let the girl go and ran off himself. The girl then stayed with the woman until the police could get there and get a report. They found the boy later and I don't know what exactly happened because I haven't seen anymore stories on it since it all happened.

So to me it's not a dumb report. He may have been trying to abduct her. It is easy to ditch a bike. Afterall this boy walked right up and abducted a girl and just started walking off with her.

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

True, young men have few brains... and lots of bronze.

The case of the Frence World Bank guy in NYC...1) most bathrooms in hotels are adjacent to the halls so the plumbing can be worked on. 2) A man alone never closes the bathroom door to take a shower... well perhaps for steam... 3) Hotels generally give mades a list of rooms to clean that have been vacated. the whole thing sounded odd to me from the first news cast!!! Whatcha thank?

Tea8 Loc: Where the wind comes sweeping down the plain.

dpullum wrote:

True, young men have few brains... and lots of bronze.

The case of the Frence World Bank guy in NYC...1) most bathrooms in hotels are adjacent to the halls so the plumbing can be worked on. 2) A man alone never closes the bathroom door to take a shower... well perhaps for steam... 3) Hotels generally give mades a list of rooms to clean that have been vacated. the whole thing sounded odd to me from the first news cast!!! Whatcha thank?

Yeah now these sound odd, but I would have to agree with the second one. I can attest to that one and I am at home when it happens.

kevindunne

Anything you hear on MSNBC...........

amyinsparta Loc: White county, TN

I've noticed that newspaper reports are getting to be ever more harder to understand. They obviously hire people who have never heard of the wwwwwh's, and reading over your work before you hand it in.

HEART Loc: God's Country - COLORADO

amyinsparta wrote:

I've noticed that newspaper reports are getting to be ever more harder to understand. They obviously hire people who have never heard of the wwwwwh's, and reading over your work before you hand it in.

Amen, Amy! That's exactly what is wrong with newspaper reporting! Thanks for pointing that out.

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

Pennsylvania dutch also.. the classic was when Gen Schwartzkopf attempted to kill Prez Clinton!!! What!!

Yep to quote the D-Day Anniversary some years ago News... "Today, General Schwartzkopf threw roses off the clefts of dover along with president Clinton."

Perhaps better would have been "Today President Clinton and General Schwartzkopf threw roses over the clefts of Dover."
(NOTE: No Blue dress was involved... and did you know that "That Woman" Monica and The Great Republican Lobbyist Jack Abramoff were from the same high-school."

Political Trivia of the Day
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2006/01/06/political_trivia_of_the_day.html
From the New York Post: "Scandalized lobbyist Jack Abramoff and scandalized White House intern Monica Lewinsky both went to the Hawthorne School in L.A. and Beverly Hills High School."

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

kevindunne wrote:

Anything you hear on MSNBC...........

What fox to you have to back up that statement?
Check out Rachel Maddow, she has won the Steinbeck Award, one of only 3 women, and is the youngest to have won it.

I watch FOX, listen (rarely) to Rush Limbaugh, as well as have coffee every morning with Rachel on the net. Wake up and smell the coffee... she is fun and factual... She likes girls, but how can I blame her for liking what I like!! :lol:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/

amyinsparta Loc: White county, TN

kevindunne wrote:

Anything you hear on MSNBC...........

anything you hear on any news channel is suspect. They all have agendas, whether right or left. Few to none just 'gives the facts'. Listen carefully and you will catch some phrase, some twist, some half truth, some speculation that is presented as fact, etc. You have media moguls who have their particular belief systems and they make sure those are inserted into the reporting by contributing to certain politicians. Just because we might agree with what is being said does not make it either fair or factual.

davedeuce

Where's Walter Cronkite when we need him?

SHUTERED Loc: SO. CAL.

THE 5 W'S AND WALTER. Now your talking about journalism. The buyline used to be the most important fact in the story being reported. Todays Newspapers in an effort to compete with radio, tv, internet, cell phone news quips ( msnbc ) now run story's that are two or more weeks old just to fill the paper! They also wonder why they are still loosing market share. In my opinion they have lowered themselves to the level of the scandle sheets. Maybe if they used a little backbone and went back to the old way's of printing verified facts only, they would reserect themselvesto the level of Cronkite and Morrel. Now that would be integrety, that has value and could demand a price.

davedeuce

SHUTERED wrote:

THE 5 W'S AND WALTER. Now your talking about jour... (show quote)

Well, said.

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

At my age, 76, (verified by long form certificate with state seal) you can imagine the things I have read, heard, seen at Saturday matinée News Reel (dismembered bloated dead soldiers), Senate hearings (Every night I checked for Commies under my bed!), then Edward R Marrow once a voice became an snowy image and the famous "have you no shame" comment that destroyed Senator McCarthy (the ghost of which still arises from the Republican Ash pit), the Kennedy assignation, on and on... and the tragic thing is that with our communications systems so modern, fantastic, nothing gets coverage in depth... "lets leave it here, now for a break." where is the voice saying "And that's the way it is, Good night." every word was clear and distinct.. those were the days my friend.

micro Loc: Texas

kevindunne wrote:

Anything you hear on MSNBC...........

Unlike FOX (Faux) News, MSNBC does not claim to be news. MSNBC is political comentary.

FOX, on the other hand claims to be journalism.