Re: WBZ-AM Living In The Past

["Sean Smyth" <ssmyth@suscom.net>]

Paul Anderson writes:
> A week ago Friday, WBZ ran the afternoon stock report.  The whole thing
> ran, and I didn't think it sounded right, because the market was up
> that day but the report told of a down market.  The announcer
> apologized a few minutes later, as the report was from the day before.
>
> It seems to me WBZ makes too many of such goofs for "America's most
> powerful news organization".

Is it the chicken (increased technology breeding screw-ups) or the egg (the
person programming the computer messing up)? Is the industry relying too
much on computers nowadays at the expense of a tight-sounding product?