[CW] Lebanon TN elderly couple uses military Morse Code training to escape assisted living facility

[Richard Knoppow]

    Never allow facts to get in the way of a good story.

On 5/1/2021 9:17 AM, Steve WD8DAS via CW wrote:
>
> Having worked in the same organizations as news writers for 
> most of my career, my observations:
>
> 1.  Some are sensible "fact-reporters" who seek to get the 
> facts straight and care about the details (within their 
> resources to discover),
>
> 2.  A second "touchy-feely" group that doesn't care too much 
> about the details of the situation but want mainly to tell what 
> they consider "the human story". These people seem to able to 
> misremember the details if it enhances the story of the people 
> involved.
>
> 3.  A third "activist" group who have a sense that they know 
> best and will actively suppress or distort facts to make a 
> story fit their preconceived agenda.
>
> This pattern is probably also true of the story-telling 
> population at large but the problem is that news personnel 
> claim to all be in group #1.
>
>
> Steve WD8DAS
>
> sbjohnston at aol.com
> http://www.wd8das.net/
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Richard Knoppow
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