Making it up: Another day, another News & Record fail

GREENSBORO, NC -- It's pretty bad when your local newspaper cannot even accurately regurgitate information from a press release.

The News & Record "reports":

"Armed men tried and failed to rob two people who arranged on Craigslist to sell a gaming system, according to a police news release." 

and:

 "The suspects ran from the scene without taking any property, police said."

The police did not say that. The robbers did not fail. Exactly the opposite. The suspects did not flee the scene without taking any property. They took property. That's what made it a robbery and thus the headline on the police press release: "Robbery from person."

All of this was clear in the police press release. It only became confused when the News & Record put their hands on it. From the police press release (emphasis added):

"Officers discovered two victims in the parking lot who stated that they had been robbed at gunpoint during the sale of a PlayStation 4 that had been arranged on Craigslist. No one was injured and no other items were taken."

I wonder what the News & Record sees as their mission and if they think they are doing a good job at whatever that is.