[net.politics] Misreporting news

steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton) (10/30/84)

I have been at 4 or 5 events that made the news. On no occasion could I say
that the reports matched the event. In one case the report was exactly
opposite to what actually happened.

(I got a laugh this week from a report in a magazine of a British tv news
report where the commentary said "The miners charged against the police"
over a film of the police charging against the miners).

As a teenager I was a newspaper deliverer (in the UK) and so each day I got
a chance to compare every paper's treatment of stories. It was always amazing
to see how different, even contradictory, they were.