4/12: 100 MPH Accord wreck

Undertoad · 04-13-2001, 12:58 AM

I don't know, but anything that damages 13 Camaros... waiting to be driven by Texans... can't be all bad.

I mean, ironically this guy ought to be in for a safety award. You *know* those 13 Camaros were gonna be in wrecks *eventually*!

The thing that really jazzed me about posting this image: it was an interesting example of going around the major media to report on news. The story came directly from an eye-witness. The images came directly from his digital camera - in fact, they were raw images, with the digicam filing system filenames. The link was highlighted on a link-collecting-n-sharing site that I go to every once in a while.

Now, that brings up a huge set of questions. The eyewitness report was short on detail. 'sotto points that out. Was it 100, 110...? The link collecting website thought it was 110. Was it 13 Camaros? Somebody thought so.

No journalist interpreted the story, but no journalist was there to capture the exact facts either. We don't want our world to come to us through a sharp filter, but we need some leg work to track this stuff down.

04-13-2001, 12:58 AM	#4
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	I don't know, but anything that damages 13 Camaros... waiting to be driven by Texans... can't be all bad. I mean, ironically this guy ought to be in for a safety award. You know those 13 Camaros were gonna be in wrecks eventually! The thing that really jazzed me about posting this image: it was an interesting example of going around the major media to report on news. The story came directly from an eye-witness. The images came directly from his digital camera - in fact, they were raw images, with the digicam filing system filenames. The link was highlighted on a link-collecting-n-sharing site that I go to every once in a while. Now, that brings up a huge set of questions. The eyewitness report was short on detail. 'sotto points that out. Was it 100, 110...? The link collecting website thought it was 110. Was it 13 Camaros? Somebody thought so. No journalist interpreted the story, but no journalist was there to capture the exact facts either. We don't want our world to come to us through a sharp filter, but we need some leg work to track this stuff down.

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