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Posted By: Dave Hornish

Never believe the "facts" in a newspaper article or news report. More often than not they are at least partially incorrect. My niece was involved in a very serious auto accident about five blocks from our house a few years ago (she is OK now)that made the news and was also popping up on the Web when it happened (it was a surreal moment to go to a website and see a helicopter shot of my niece's wrecked car by the way). They ran a 2 paragraph article about it in our local paper (Newsday, a top 10 circulation paper in the US) and we counted 11 factual errors within. Every day I see stories in the paper with errors; don't even get me going on the alleged news on TV which is even worse. The state of mainstream journalism in this country is a joke.

There's also the added intrigue of GAI vs SGC in this case. The real story, which may never be revealed, is likely too complicated for the average reporter to bother sorting out. There are some fine journalists in this country still but their ranks diminish yearly.