Klingons expose bad journalism

Did you happen to read that a county in Oregon is in need of a Klingon interpreter? What a surprise, it is completely false.

In a nutshell, what happened is some county employees added Klingon as a language that the county could seek paid interpreters for. It was just a word on a list put there to amuse the government employees.

For some reason, some sloppy reporter at the Associated Press took liberties with the facts and pretty much just made stuff up. Or maybe the AP lets high schoolers write stuff that gets sent over the wires without oversight. Once the AP released the story it spread throughout news publications, being echoed over and over. (A search on Google News for anything quickly reveals how little original writing is done these days.)

Apparently journalism doesn't apply to the news profession anymore.

kherr @ 23:47 CDT | link | general