Department of Doublespeak Department
"KHQA Clarification
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 4:04 p.m.
KHQA TV wishes to offer clarification regarding a story that appeared last month on our website ConnectTristates.com. The story, which discussed the appointment of a replacement for President Elect Obama’in the U.S. Senate, became the subject of much discussion on talk radio and on blog sites Wednesday.
The story housed in our website archive was on the morning of November 5, 2008. It suggested that a meeting was scheduled later that day between President Elect Obama and Illinois Governor Blagojevich. KHQA has no knowledge that any meeting ever took place. Governor Blagojevich did appear at a news conference in Chicago on that date."
I think what they're trying to say is that in November, they reported something as fact without doing even a teeny shred of actual reporting. Ooopsie.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 4:04 p.m.
KHQA TV wishes to offer clarification regarding a story that appeared last month on our website ConnectTristates.com. The story, which discussed the appointment of a replacement for President Elect Obama’in the U.S. Senate, became the subject of much discussion on talk radio and on blog sites Wednesday.
The story housed in our website archive was on the morning of November 5, 2008. It suggested that a meeting was scheduled later that day between President Elect Obama and Illinois Governor Blagojevich. KHQA has no knowledge that any meeting ever took place. Governor Blagojevich did appear at a news conference in Chicago on that date."
posted by Allthenewsthatfits at 2:47 PM
4 Comments:
The story was merely "housed" there. It was a homeless story looking for a warm place to sleep and just crawled in there.
Of course "housed", with a soft 'S' has a different meaning altogether and it appears applicable in this case.
Excellent commentary--no matter what Rodney says.
Continued Success.
Looks like others have noticed.
http://wthrockmorton.com/2008/12/11/khqa-refuses-comment-on-report-of-blagojevich-obama-meeting/
Well....to quote from the blog post that Anon is mentioning:
"their conduct invites speculation"
and
"the curious conduct of the station opens the door to speculation."
That seems like a pretty low standard....I don't know anything about this Throckmorton guy but he sounds quite irresponsible to me. I can speculate all day that there are funny little men on the moon, but that doesn't make it true.
"Becuase accuracy matters..."
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