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Lurks Often

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18. Reporters checking details?

Reply to caseymoz (Reply #17)

Fri Dec 28, 2012, 02:59 PM

Dec 2012

You must have a better class of journalist then I do here in CT. I don't watch TV anymore, but the quality of writing in the Hartford Courant has gone way downhill, mostly they seem to publish police statements for routine crime items, they often get basic facts wrong and apparently the only editing that gets done is by running spell check.

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