Schwarzenegger Rumor Reported as Fact by CBS4Denver’s Shaun Boyd
May 17, 2011 at 6:35 PM 4 comments
This is how rumors get started: The top story tonight on my local CBS4News in Denver was the saga of Arnold Schwarzenegger. The segment, reported by Shaun Boyd
concluded with Boyd reading the text of this Tweet by Patrick Schwarzenegger from minutes ago earlier today:
Boyd concluded her report with: Patrick “signed the Tweet, Patrick SHRIVER.”
He did? Anyone see that?
I don’t know where Boyd got her information but obviously, she didn’t confirm it. It would have taken five seconds.
I know what’s going on with the Schwarzeneggers isn’t Earth shattering but this is indicative of how “journalists” have lost their way around here.
Bottom line? Don’t trust a thing you see on teevee. Rumor, hearsay and gossip is now reported as fact. “Journalists” are apparently too busy or too underpaid or too whatever to do their basic job.
(I will post video if I can find it. I didn’t have my DVR on when this happened.)
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Janet | May 17, 2011 at 7:51 PM
It does say Patrick Shriver, right under @PShwarzenegger at the top.
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Say It Ain't So Already | May 17, 2011 at 8:03 PM
I see it but is that “signing” the Tweet? I don’t think so. We all know what “signing” something means. It means that the “signature” is at the end, not at the beginning much less at the heading.
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Say It Ain't So Already | May 18, 2011 at 9:30 AM
That’s the way he set up his Twitter account. You can go way back and view his old Tweets and the sub-head, “Patrick Shriver” is there then too. It’s not new, and dramatic, as CBS4 would have us believe.
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Janet | May 18, 2011 at 9:50 AM
Interesting. That does seem misleading.