Journalism at its best

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http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060328/boy_rescued060328/20060329?hub=Canada

I shit thee not, CTV news broke programming today in the middle of their news and let this go for like 30 minutes.
It was a fucking paraody of itself.. with the "reporters" saying things like "Now, it appears as though the firefighters are unpacking some of their equipment."
At one point they ran out of things to say and started talking about the camera they were using to cover it.... fucking hilarious shit man.
The print story I posted, naturally, makes it all seem so dangerous.... for instance the part about how if the ledge wasn't there they would have fallen... truth is the kid never fell, he climbed down there to get his dog.
It was fucking funny.

[tjwmason]

1. Slow news day eh?

Though by Canadian standards probably actually busy.

I like the line:

In a race against the setting sun, a firefighter rappeled down the slippery, moss-covered cliff and secured both the boy and the dog just minutes before darkness enveloped the area.

Because there's no way that somebody could have switched a torch on once "darkness enveloped the area"....

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2. Yeah, everyone knows that search and rescue teams

Don't carry flashlights.
I wrote an extremely sarcastic email to them.


;-) BTW the sad part is it wasn't a slow news day... and they still went with this for a half hour.