Adam LaRoche and his son

It's ironic that this site gets frustrated when police rally around one of their own, no matter what.

#ThinInkLine

 

You don't get to take reporting short cuts. Glad I could clear that up.

 

But "Bob" did, and Alma, of all people, thinks we should trust him.

 

Dick said readers don't know the difference between Bob Nightengale and a first-year journalism student. Of course they do. The guy is a columnist for USA Today. First-year journalism students do not get full-time jobs as columnists at national newspapers and, yes, readers realize this difference.

 

You and Dick should take it up with Alma then. I stated quite clearly I think Nightengale did a shoddy job. (Hint: I'm on your side on this one )

 

Keep believing that.

Most readers don't know the difference between a straight news article and an opinion column.

In this case, "Bob" was pretending to have done some reporting, which makes it even harder for the average reader.

Now, let's imagine the reader who is only reading an article/column that is based on "Bob's" piece.

They don't know, and don't give a fuck, who he is.

And, as my previous link show, even an intern can end up covering a big story in a national publication.

 

And, btw, I just realized that "Bob's" article carried a Phoenix dateline.

He was in Phoenix and this was the best he could do?

Was USA Today unwilling to reimburse him for gas?

 

Careful, YF, your bias is showing.

First-year journalism students don't get to write a full-time column for a national publication. An intern covering a random Mets game on a Friday night in June matters not a bit to this discussion.

I don't have to imagine a reader reading an article/column based on Nightengale's piece. That wasn't the scope of Dick's post. He said readers don't know the difference between Bob Nightengale and a first-year journalism student. Without even knowing who Nightengale is, a reader knows the difference between him and a first-year journalism student. He's wrong, and so are you.

 

Keep believing that.

 

LOL.

 

You do so at your own peril.

 

There are tens of thousands of people in this country who believed that a photo of Hillary Clinton shaking hands with Osama bin Laden was real, and that Donald Trump told People Magazine that Republican voters were "the dumbest voters" in 1998. Those are just two examples I recall from last week. They pass around with regularity five-year-old celebrity obituaries.

We're arguing that readers vet their news sources in 2016? Really?