Re: Train Accident in Blue Mountains

[Ian Jelf <ian@bluebadge.demon.co.uk>]

In article <3846bfd2@news.iprolink.co.nz>, David McLoughlin <davemcl@AXE
*THISiprolink.co.nz> writes
>The news media may not be perfect but without it politicians, the
>bureaucracy and big business would indeed be able to treat us all as
>mushrooms.
I wouldn't like you to think that I'd somehow want us to be "without"
the news media;  in a post I've made today to another newsgroup I made
the point that there are good, conscientious reporters who uncover
wrongs, report the facts and give voice to those who would otherwise
have none.

The fact remains, though, that newspapers and even TV here in Britain
were screaming "70, 80 90 DEAD?" when there turned out to be 31 at
Ladbroke Grove.

They were carrying demands for an enquiry (which would happen
statutorily anyway, under full media scrutiny) as though they could
achieve this themselves.

And elsewhere in this thread, someone has told of a Channel 10 Sydney
reporter talking about the wrecked engine "still steaming".

When I see inaccuracies in the reporting of subjects I *do* know
something about, it worries me to think of what I hear on subject I know
little or nothing about.


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