by Tadman
rohr turbo wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2020 7:15 pmAbsolutely not.Tadman wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2020 11:24 am ... and it's also more evidence that NPR didn't do any reporting, they just did regurgitating. Why just ask the aggrieved here? Why not call a few bus companies? What does that take, ten minutes?In all your angry diatribes, you've yet to point out any factual error in the reporting. And NPR DID go to Amtrak several times for comment. And what for god's sake would 'bus companies' say that is relevant to this story??
Zero. Primary. Sources.
Now that the story has been picked up by a wide range of news outlets, all reporting basically the same set of facts, your (and John Perkowski's) vitriol toward NPR looks all the more ridiculous.
Amtrak screwed up. NPR reported it first, and accurately. Public backlash, including a Senator. Amtrak then revised its policies for the better. Follow up reports published.
A good outcome all in all.
I haven't pointed out any factual errors as NPR took a tiny sliver of a story, regurgitated it, and called it reporting. NPR is 100% correct. Amtrak asked a group for a $25,000 price tag. Open and shut.
But the implication is that Amtrak is discriminatory, mean, whatever, and they completely failed to do any further reporting. They did exactly what the press did in the Ifills article and the Michigan Central article. Took a tiny sliver of a story, sliver being factually correct, and printed it way out of context, with no primary sources, no site visits, just sat in their coffee shop and painted a real nasty picture.
It's also the same thing I did when I made up a story and infuriated a bunch of people that resorted to calling me names because my "reporting" was 100% correct and they fell for it.
In absolutely all of the cases above, the sliver of reporting was correct but the the true story is not. Amtrak is very accommodating to minorities and those with disabilities. I helped a sick family member navigate a special needs situation a few years back and the help from the Amtrak team was astoundingly good.
But the media always has an ax to grind, and today it was with Amtrak. Same with New York Times.
The new Acela: It's not Aveliable.