This worlds largest thing (and the media) is CRAP!....

Well, CNN has been airing this piece, and it has been fed to hundreds of 
local TV stations, including ours.
The blame is to be put on the MEDIA, period. It is THIER responsibility to 
CHECK THE FACTS for accuracy before reporting it as fact. They have not been 
doing this at ALL lately about ANYTHING, in attempts (I am guessing), to just 
basically be the first one to run the story. Accuracy comes second in 
priority, if at ALL.
I think the media realizes that they can get away with it, the your average 
viewer is naive and will believe anything. I notice TONS of errors and 
misleading information every day on all of the news channels on TV. Whatever 
happened to journalistic responsibility? Sure, it helps if someone publicizes 
the info and give it to the media, but look, it is the MEDIA's and ONLY the 
MEDIA's SOLE responsibility to check the facts for themselves. The fact that 
they don't know about this list or our various web pages is THIER FAULT. 
Heck, a 6 year old can go to YAHOO and type in "GIANT PUMPKINS" and get a 
list of websites including this list's archives! DANG, they should be ashamed 
to call themselves journalists. They don't even bother to check accuracy 
anymore. It is just so sad. I laughed my head off when I saw the story about 
the pumpkin claiming it was the World's Largest. The SICK thing is they are 
so stupid, they can;t even remember a mere 12 months ago when they said a 
1092 was the world's largest. DUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And the 
anchors just sit there with smiles on their faces, with not even a hint of 
anything that sounds a bit wrong with the story like "....HEY! Wait a minute! 
Didn't we report on a 1000+ pounder last year, and wait....even the year 
before! Whoah!". Nope, they just site there and read whatever the prompter 
says. SHEESH! I am telling you, this really is scary. I mean if they can't 
get something like this right (and they are WAY off), what other news stories 
have been falsly reported? Sheesh....very very scary. In the past they USED 
to acknowledge that they might not have all the info, (like saying it is the 
heaviest pumpkin REPORTED according to THIER sources at the time)but no, they 
just flat out say WORLD RECORD! Period! How moronic.



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