In the rush to get stories out and the hyper-competitive news market, the biggest annoyance to me is incomplete stories.
You all remember the case last November of the Quebec teenager with the peanut allergy who dropped dead when her boyfriend kissed her after eating a peanut butter sandwitch? No. OK then go here and then come back.
OK, so we have a number of inaccuracies in the first story:
no adrenaline shot, because
she didn't have an allergic reaction to peanut butter
...so of course WHAT did kill her? You figure the story would tell us, no? Well it doesn't, and because of the inane boredom of my afternoon today, I'm left contemplating this question of absolutely no relevance to my life (tragic though the story is...) and I'm now insanely curious about what actually did kill her...
I heard the same thing on the radio this morning -- she didn't die from an allergic reaction to peanuts... but the coroner doesn't say what she did die from.
Would it have killed the guy to add something more, like "we're still working on it, and have not established causality yet"...?
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[Rue] on 01/24/07 11:09 : With bated breath I await your return to blogging. [go]
[Rue] on 01/24/07 11:09 : With bated breath I await your return to blogging. [go]
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Would it have killed the guy to add something more, like "we're still working on it, and have not established causality yet"...?