I'm standing by this story. It's accurate, I swear.
Posted on 06/06/2007 9:34:09 AM PDT by Renfield
~~~snip~~~ However, Mr Grzebski, who saw his story unfold first in the Polish media and then saw it repeated around the world, has now said he was never in a coma for 19 years.
"I never said any of those things, I was not in a coma for 19 years, I only spoke to one journalist and what they wrote was not true - and every time the story was printed new things emerged," he added.
~~~snip~~~
(Excerpt) Read more at media.guardian.co.uk ...
'...Mr Grzebski's doctor, Wojciech Pstragowski, confirmed that his patient had been disabled for 19 years, but that only the first four years were in a coma....'
He really just took a nap on the couch during a football game, but you know how things get blown out of proportion by reporters.
I'm standing by this story. It's accurate, I swear.
I only spoke to one journalist and what they wrote was not true - and every time the story was printed new things emerged,” he added.
heh heh! “Fake but accurate.”
19 MINUTE nap.
My sister experienced the same when interviewed recently. The journalist added more than she originally said in her quote. It really disturbed her. I wasn’t surprised one iota.
Flash back~
“It is not incumbent on journalist to confirm that a story is true, it is the responsibility of the public to prove that it is not”
Mary Mapes – Dan Rather’s producer
Well, years ago, I learned that doesn’t stop the press anyway. I would listen to our great Ronaldus Magnus, then the press’s version afterwards. Hard to believe they heard what I heard.
This is why my hubby,who’s a journalist, carries a digital recorder with him—so a source can’t come back later and claim they never said what they said.
Anytime you are at an event or have a working knowledge of the subject, it is bound to be improperly reported.
My first hand experiences are that I’ve seen some exceptions to this but the media is more wrong than right.
I suspected that there was more to this story than meets the eye. I at first figured that this guy was collecting some kind of welfare benefits for the last 19 years and someone was about to report him or he was about to get ‘found out’.
This has been true over the years with every local story I have personally witnessed or know the details of. The newspaper report is ALWAYS wrong. And for no particular reason, usually. Not ideology or bias, just plain dumb carelessness or laziness.
I had a similar experience almost 30 years ago that gave me the realization that reporters typically just make stuff up.
Leading to my completely dropping newspaper and newsmagazine subscriptions, not watching network (and now CNN) TV, and my trusted news sources being independent and well scattered sources.
After the 9-11 attacks, we were told that Atta and the boys hung out in bars bragging about their plans and playing pinball. Later a journalist said they were playing the Golden Tee “pinball” game. It is a golf VIDEOGAME.
Like the reporter that claimed a police officer fired his “Glock” “service revolver”.
You can’t even depend on multiple wireservices reports, they are often all cobbled rewrites of the same articles.
It’s still a great story for a movie screenplay, I think.
I had the same experience one year after running in the Boston Marathon. A local newspaper reporter asked me why wheelchair racers weren’t allowed in the marathon. I told him twice that they were allowed in the marathon.
Of course the next day, I was quoted as saying that wheelchair racers weren’t permitted in the Boston Marathon.
Needless to say, I wasn’t pleased.
“first four years were in a coma.”
Still a long time.
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