From Ron Sarro, a friend, former D.C. journalist, once president of the Washington Press Club, and a reliable source:
“The ABC National weather woman just advised viewers “Don’t forget to turn your clocks back” on Sunday, then demonstrated how to use a machine to mix a booze drink. Its ‘Spring forward, Fall back,” ABC, which made no effort to correct the error.”
Oh, nice. Now people who rely on ABC will be two hours off on Sunday. Imagine what kind of carnage this reporter’s gaffe will cause, and there is absolutely no way ABC can fix the problem. Sure, the correct information is out there in many places, but thousands, perhaps thousands of viewers will suffer because an inept and unprofessional reporter wasn’t thinking or taking appropriate care.
Sure, mistakes will happen…and this one should have been flagged immediately in the studio, and fixed on the spot. Moreover, there are certain kinds of information that cannot be excusably miscommunicated—the addresses of 911 call emergencies, for example. Explaining to a patient over the phone how much medicine to take. Even conveying recipes in cooking shows. Such information flags itself; anyone should know that when one is telling millions of people to do something that might completely disrupt their lives if done incorrectly, you must be accurate, and you must be certain that you have the correct information and are accurately transmitting it.
We should be able to rely on professionals to understand this. There is very little professional and therefore very little trustworthy either about the broadcast networks any more, however….so we can’t.
A lot of people are going to learn this the hard way on Sunday.
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Graphics: ABC News
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The start of daylight savings time, when one wonders if the ease of resetting the clocks (a single button-press of the increase hour button, rather than 23) is worth the hour of lost sleep…
Yeah, but Luke, in the fall you get to sleep through the same hour twice!!
You mean PARTY through the same hour twice!
Nope, I’m 68…I mean
SLEEP!
I think MSNBC should make her an offer to be an anchor. 😉
Since I’m working a long night shift Sunday, that’s just fine with me! Besides, who watches ABC, anyway??
Well, as Jack wrote . . . thousands, perhaps thousands!
–Dwayne
Maybe the equivalent of the entire population of Jasper TX? My God, what have we come to??
Had it been msnbc that made the mistake at least a half dozen people may have been impacted.
You just made that name up, who would name a city “Jasper?”
I there’s a word in the dictionary, there’s town in Texas.
The people of Jasper. It’s north of Beaumont, on highway 190, East of Houston.
And another town in Alabama. Both are named for Sergeant Jasper, a hero of the Revolutionary War at the siege of Fort Moultrie.
So there!!!
heh-heh-heh…