I just read the paper this morning and found out that I started skiing in 1990, I've blown my knees out twice each, and my name is Rod. All of which is news to me.
In MY reality, I started skiing in 1984, I've had knee surgery once on each knee, and my name is not Rod. If this many facts can get messed up in a short blurb, do you ever wonder just how much of an average news article is just plain wrong?
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09-29-2005, 12:37 PM #1
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Reality vs. what you read in the news [Ski-related]
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09-29-2005, 12:51 PM #2
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Do you have a link? That's pathetic.... Rod.
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09-29-2005, 12:53 PM #3
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Doh. Yeah. I guess that might help: http://www.sltrib.com/outdoors/ci_3070606
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09-29-2005, 01:02 PM #4
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Hey Rod, maybe they were talking about a different guy.
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09-29-2005, 01:06 PM #5
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Yikes!
Originally Posted by Endlessseason
Unfortunately there are good reporters and bad ones. And with the lousy pay in the newspaper biz, the bad ones can usually keep their jobs way too long. I hope that was either a newbie or an intern, otherwise, as you said, it makes you question the accuracy of what you read.
I've been at press conferences, meetings, etc and later read stories that made me wonder if the reporter was actually at the event.
(Trying to recollect here, but didn't I get something wrong in that story I did about you? Doooh!)
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09-29-2005, 01:35 PM #6
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Endless, that flat out sucks. I mean, finding out you have a twin brother named Rod must be hard enough...but to read it in the paper...wow...
Email the editor of the section (Outdoors?, I don't know? I got rid of my subscription to the Salt Lake Mullet Wrapper years ago...) and tell them you want a correction, and not just "we got the name wrong" either.
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09-29-2005, 01:39 PM #7
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Team Ramrod!
"Have fun, get a flyrod, and give the worm dunkers the finger when you start double hauling." ~Lumpy
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09-29-2005, 01:40 PM #8
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Make sure that story makes its' way onto YOUR site, too (as published) - and point out the glaring mistakes, untruths, etc. Well done getting the article, but you've got to wonder what "Journalistic integrity" means when the guy's running an article that leaves its' subject confused.
And yes - write a letter to the Editor.We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need? ~ Lee Iacocca
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09-29-2005, 01:41 PM #9
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His name is Rod Cram!!!
Amazing!
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09-29-2005, 02:05 PM #10
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Did the paper contact you with the story idea, or the other way around?
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09-29-2005, 02:12 PM #11
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Investigative journalism finally uncovers the ugly truth about Rod (aka "Ron") Cram.
You wish you had that extra six of skiing under your belt!
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09-29-2005, 02:18 PM #12
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I like the bit in the report that shows that a recovering meth addict can do something constructive.
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09-29-2005, 04:52 PM #13
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EZB, the ball got rolling when one of their freelancers (not the guy who did the story) asked me recently if I was still doing the streak thing.
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09-29-2005, 05:07 PM #14
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so this didn't have anything to do with the thread here a littlw while back where some reporter was asking about people that skied all year round?
also, i think this happens more oftne than you think, especially in these little human interest stories. i remember a guy i knew won worlds for slalom in his age group, so the aspen papers interviewed him. this kid was as big of a stoner as you'll meet, and goofy as hell to boot, they had him talking like a ceo. I didnt even have to ask him if it was all bs, although i did anyway.
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09-29-2005, 05:15 PM #15
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Originally Posted by Endlessseason
Well now, maybe that is the problem. "MY reality". Its all about you, isn't it? How very, very selfish. Dr. Phil would not be happy with you.Quando paramucho mi amore de felice carathon.
Mundo paparazzi mi amore cicce verdi parasol.
Questo abrigado tantamucho que canite carousel.
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09-29-2005, 05:17 PM #16
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No, this article didn't. But, the other paper in town - the one Boarderline took pics for last Sat - that reporter originally was interested in a story on as many year round skiers as I could get to meet with him. No one showed any interest so I had meet him alone. Mebbe next time. Originally Posted by aspenskibum
That article is supposed to come out shortly.Last edited by Endlessseason; 09-29-2005 at 05:20 PM.
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09-29-2005, 05:18 PM #17
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Heh. I was wondering if anyone would catch that. Originally Posted by irul&ublo
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09-29-2005, 05:25 PM #18
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I think that should be his new screen name. The Amazing Rod Cram. Originally Posted by descender
Living vicariously through myself.
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09-29-2005, 05:31 PM #19
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At least he didn't say you were a snowblader...
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09-29-2005, 05:33 PM #20
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Swivel hips???"Most years there's just enough snow to make a few hundred turns."
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09-29-2005, 05:41 PM #21
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I didn't even notice that! What the ??!! I didn't even say that part.
So now I'm a swivel-hipped, snowblading, quad-repaired, selfish skier named Amazing Rod who started a ski streak the same year I started skiing...
I'll just go kill myself now....
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09-29-2005, 06:31 PM #22
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[QUOTE=Endlessseason]I didn't even notice that! What the ??!! I didn't even say that part.
So now I'm a swivel-hipped, snowblading, quad-repaired, selfish skier named Amazing Rod who started a ski streak the same year I started skiing...
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LOL
I want a 6" travel 20lb MTB. I found the 20lb MTB, but only good for riders under 87 pounds.
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09-29-2005, 06:52 PM #23
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Yes, listen to Mike Savage of "The Savage Nation" . I don't like alot of what he says but he has his facts right.
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09-29-2005, 07:03 PM #24
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Rod Cram would make a great porno name, you should switch industries.
Well, it is the salt lake tribune, if it was the new york times or the washington post then I could understand...
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09-29-2005, 07:49 PM #25
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If that ain't true then your name isn't EndedSeasonSkiing that often doesn't come without consequences. Cram has had three concussions and several broken bones and has blown out each knee twice, each time requiring surgery.
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