Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Fact checking and confirming is one thing and where he should have stopped. But the other side is the photographer is blowing Covid out of proportion and what Alma has been pushing. We have too many nurses stories. Teachers are babies who should suck it up and go back to work and now people getting pissed that people are concerned they were just exposed and have to worry about their kids demands we get the fair and balanced side from crack pots.

 

I'd be surprised if the editors corroborated that story. It would have required the photographer giving the names of the party.

 

But that's often a conversation between reporter and editor (or should be). I've been on both sides -- as a reporter, I've given my editor the names and contacts for verification; and as an editor I've asked for both.

 

Yes, it does. I'm just cynical that there was ever an intent, from the top down, to get both sides of that anecdote.

 

Everyone is forgetting about the possibility that the bridesmaid might have even said: “Of course I said it. It was her wedding day after all! Gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet.”

 

Weddings to Die For

 

Here's the relevant line in the Texas Monthly story:

“I think most people’s intentions are good,” said one photographer, who, like most who shared their stories, asked to be anonymous because she didn’t want to risk losing more work than she already has this year.

Enough?

 

Sure.

So there's a grant of anonymity for everyone.

Presumably the reporter and the editors know the photographers' names - and the dates of the weddings and have seen photographs from those weddings.

And they trust the photographers sufficiently to quote a couple of them in a couple of instances.

Again, the reporter and the editors were comfortable enough with their sourcing that they ran the story.

I think the risk of following up with attendees at these weddings to get their "side" of things puts the photographers' livelihoods in jeopardy.

 

Yep. Get all that. Wouldn’t have run it. Makes me uncool. I get that, too.

As to your last graph...no photographer’s livelihood was at stake. The anecdote was. The perfect kicker was. The minute the writer says “you know, that accusation is so specific and shocking I’d have to corroborate that before I used it” is the same minute the photographer says “no, I could lose all my business!” And then the anecdote doesn’t run.

But this kind of stuff happens often. If it seems poetically true - and it’s a truth the media believes is important - the story gets told.

 

Video shows mishap during COVID-19 vaccination of El Paso nurses

"After numerous reports emerged on social media claiming one of the five nurses receiving a vaccination on Tuesday did not receive a full dose of vaccine, we want to remove any doubt raised that he was not fully vaccinated and further strengthen confidence in the vaccination process."

"The nurse in question today was vaccinated again. UMC has confirmed with the US Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) that re-vaccinating the nurse will not cause adverse effects. The nurse will need to return after three weeks to receive his second dose."​

This is apparently the "re-vaccinated" photo ...

 

The New Yorker has admitted this, my friend.

“We remain confident about the value of ‘A Theory of Relativity’ as an exploration of ideas of family in Japan and more widely.”

 

So airlines don’t even do a temp check before you get on the plane?

United Passenger Dies After Lying About COVID Symptoms, Photos Show Chaos
United Passenger Dies After Lying About COVID Symptoms, Photos Show Chaos