"Now, comes a warning on how they're using jury duty to trick you out of your personal information"Where does the warning come from? WFMY themselves, it appears. In other words, WFMY is not reporting news, they are fabricating titillation. What unfounded fear can we agitate people with today?
It's a common trick of the lazy "reporter:" Find some scam or controversy happening elsewhere or circulating by email chain letter, get a local expert to comment on it, then act as if, "We are just reporting this expert's warning" when really, all the expert was doing was responding to the reporter's prompting. What would you tell people to avoid this scam that I just told you about and may or may not be actually happening here?
Is the scam happening in Guilford County? No such thing is reported in the story and parts of the report sound a lot like they were borrowed from other sources. From Ingram's report:
"Investigators remind you that as a rule court officers respond to prospective jurors through the mail and never ask for confidential information over the phone."From Maricopa County, Arizona:
"As a rule, court officers never ask for confidential information over the phone; they generally correspond with prospective jurors via mail."It's pathetic and made more reprehensible in the context of WFMY's too familiar history. It is reminiscent of Ingraham's previous faked video of the mythical "black book," a colleague's made up story of violent flash mobs in downtown Greensboro and other fabrications, errors and plagiarism masquerading as news.
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WFMY News is not a news organization. They are a broadcaster of commercials who think you are so stupid all they have to do is find sensational crap to push your buttons in between the car ads to get you to pay attention. They think you're dumb, and if you rely on them for news, you are.
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Once upon a time, WFMY did good work. The product they are pushing now is depressing. This is what happens when consultants gain control of a news organization.
Thanks for commenting, John. I may not have always paid attention, but I've lived here a long time and WFMY used to have a far different reputation -- stellar. Now, indeed, it seems as if they are practically deaf to their own failings and what does manage to get their attention is addressed with fluff and rhetoric. If they can't get the basics right, no amount of stagecraft or marketing is going to make up for it.
Ed Cone commented at my blog. Ed Friggin Cone!
It's interesting you have butchered Mac Ingraham's name in your crusade for truth and accuracy.
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