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Innacurate newspaper stories about railroads.

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I grew up in Altoona, which was the home of the heavy works of the PRR, and it was a crew change point for all freight and passenger trains passing through Altoona. The Altoona Mirror, which was the major paper when I was growing up, reported daily on railroad events.  It had management and reporters who knew the railroad's management and employees. They lived amongst them as friends and neighbors.  As I remember it they usually got the story correct. Outside of places like Altoona railroads don't make that big a splash. Accordingly, most news outlets don't have the resources to develop the expert insights found amongst the news people in Altoona.  Or found amongst them when I was growing up in the 50s.  They are dependent on sources to give them good information.  If the sources get it wrong or bias the information, that is the way it is likely to appear in the new media. The news media today is as vibrant as ever. It has shifted, however, from a paper to an electronic delivery platform.  That does not make it inherently less accurate. There is no evidence that there is more misreporting today than there was 50 years ago. Except in the minds of old folks who remember what they want to remember and engage in a age old past time, i.e. extolling the virtues of a long ago past that was never quite as good as they would like to remember it.
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