Frightening Grant Wahl news

While reading your post, the names Schefter and Woj never crossed my mind.
Like, at all.

 

I have found this place to be a "virtual newsroom" of sorts when a major story happens. The only thing that's changed is the rapidity with which possible scenarios are hashed out and refined or discarded.

We, for the most part, are attuned as to how the sausage gets made. That's what we do or have done for a living. I think it's awesome to track back through threads and see how things like COVID and Ukraine played out as we found the correct narrative based on the information available in real time.

I can honestly tell you there have been conspiracy theories, dead ends and false leads in every story I ever chased, from Challenger to Dale Earnhardt's crash. It's just until social media, most of that was either in a media scrum or a newsroom. Now, it's out in the public eye, where people unfamiliar with the way news gets processed are quick to leap and slow to retract.

I guess that makes God the first news reporter, since he grills Cain about killing Abel and gets the "what, am I my brother's keeper?" response. Then again, he puts out an entire universe in seven days, so maybe he was more an editor.

 

This is a great post. I was 12 when Challenger exploded, so all I knew was the general sadness of what happened. The idea that it was anything other than an awful, tragic accident never occurred to me or anyone in my small circle (i.e. my parents). Today we'd see super geniuses who couldn't tell you how many planets there are (pre- or-post Pluto) declaring they knew that NASA rigged the ship.

 

God ain't never worked the darkroom or used a pica pole and proportion wheel on deadline.

 

There was supposedly a Russian trawler on the edge of the clear zone that morning which caused a delay in the countdown, so there were some quick connect-the-dots theories that perhaps Challenger had been shot out of the sky. Imagine how something like Twitter would have carried that narrative, even though NASA was relatively forthright to come to the conclusion that something had gone wrong with the spacecraft.

 

"Hey, we're missing the serpent story on A1!"

"Well, just slap a house ad in there for now and we'll fix it in the final."

 

twas ever thus

Salinger Stands By Story About TWA Missile Strike

 

FWIW--nothing at all--the official explanation of this one has always been viewed with lots of skepticism and suspicion on Long Island.

 

Haven't gone through all the pages and maybe someone has already posted it but here's Jones' CBC stor y

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/worldcup/world-cup-grant-wahl-chris-jones-dec10-1.6681667

 

How did the inevitable layout-program-crashes-with-five-minutes-to-deadline-and-took-two-pages-with-it crisis go?

 

Born in Mission, Kan. Died in Doha, Qatar. It doesn't seem right at all.