If it's ignorance, that's not very interesting.
Perhaps I'm just easily amused.
But it seems to me that, with a story this big, every assertion would be checked, if not by every reporter, then at least by a few and it would spread.
You see that every once in a while when they're all pronouncing a name wrong, someone gets it right, then it spreads and they all get it right. That happened with Schiavo. Everyone pronounced it as it's spelled for the longest time, then it was corrected. Happened again just recently when John Gibson started pronouncing Jose Padilla's name right. By "right" I mean the way the men in question pronounce them. I recall there was some flap when Gibson corrected his pronunciation. I remember a post on SI where someone asserted that Gibson on Fox had explained why he changed his pronunciation but that some anchor on ABC did it without explanation. More "damned liberal media," quack, quack, quack. It was a very funny exchange because, after all, the ABC anchor could have explained it too but this poster just didn't hear that particular broadcast. But he or she was so sure it was something scurrilous on the part of ABC.
Anyway, I find all that interesting. I can understand why others may not. |
