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I didn't get a chance to respond before the thread closed, but thanks very much for the story you shared.
I wish it *did* surprise me; I've seen too much of it myself to be surprised. It did depress me a little further, though the personal stakes for me are/were inevitably less than for you.
FWIW, and with some small measure of redemption, in the projects you've heard me mention before we collected examples like this for pedagogial purposes; the journos we were training had to identify all the things that were wrong with those pieces, based on what they had learned ... they got it, and usually didn't repeat the errors (okay, after some reinforcement) in their own news stories. So the errors did indirectly go to some good use.
