shoddy journalism

i'm not a journalist, but i lived with one during my senior year of college. he could instantly identify errors, identify bias (even the slightest sign of bias was detectable) and was just very aware of news and media.

i think of this, because saturday morning, while i was at the y, i was reading the cnn news ticker running on the bottom of the screen. of note was the line that discussed the "murder" of sean taylor, the redskins football player. taking the lessons from my senior year roommate, i immediately thought, "shouldn't that read, 'shooting death' and not 'murder.'"

when i returned home, i turned on espn to watch some college football, which also had a running ticker, which was reporting on the "shooting death" of sean taylor. wow. espn got it right? (at this time, the death hadn't been ruled a murder) shocking.

its funny, because i noticed this particular piece instance, and not some of the other glaring errors that occur in journalism. or maybe this one to me was just so glaring i had to blog about it.

later in life, i wonder if i'll notice the errors, or if i'll care.