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

And Just Think... We are all upset because we know about this. 


What about all the news we take as real, that we don't know about?

John,



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>From: SteveS012@aol.com
>To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>Subject: This worlds largest thing (and the media) is CRAP!....
>Date: Tue, Oct 5, 1999, 3:48 PM
>

> 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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