How long until local news people figure out local locations?

Tragic story. Heartbreaking. The victims put their lives on the line and lost them, just to protect us.

And reports of it were made even worse because certain people at one victim’s local TV station don’t know the location is HuntingDon Valley — not HuntingTon Valley — and it’s right in their backyard, in Montgomery County!

How long will it take for them to figure it out? I took the screenshot above at 53 minutes. Do you think it’ll go more than hour? Is there any responsible party at this TV station to check, fix and take responsibility?

Look! It’s just a 40-minute drive from the TV station at the end of rush hour! The post has been up longer. I’ll bet people working at the station live in Huntingdon Valley, or not too far away.

Oh, and I don’t care what the article says. They should know the local place better than the Associated Press writer across the country in Los Angeles, read the copy before posting (unless they’re in a race with the competition to be first), and correct any mistakes.

By the way, wouldn’t it be Miramar Air Station (with capitals) since it’s the full name of the location?

Tell me I’m wrong!

This is the fourth largest TV market in the country. Shouldn’t this station be run better? No wonder people aren’t watching!

Who is, and isn’t, to blame over this error? (Insiders know what I’m thinking!)

No wonder they’re a distant fourth in ratings!

JUST TELLING IT LIKE IT IS. That's what makes one station #1, another "experienced a #ratings boon," then there was #3, & this article calls @FOX29philly "distant fourth" twice! #Philly #news https://t.co/kjfdjCkGuq

— Lenny Cohen (@feedbaylenny) March 7, 2018

By the way, those of you who thought they were too incompetent to fix their mistake in less than an hour were correct. Still a mistake!

Click here to see if it’s STILL up.

I wonder if they’ll have a statement to put out concerning their performance. NOT something like this.

Just last night, I commented on that post:

Still a mistake, well over an hour later!

But look at the nonsense from Mississippi they’re more concerned about, just for clicks, than fixing mistakes that make them look dumb. Relevant for the audience, or lowering themselves and their reputation? Oh, THAT’s why they always claim We Go There! This fits their branding.

This place needs to clean house, at least in one department!

UPDATE: Felt curious and checked. Now, up more than two hours! Embarrassing!

Maybe they were concentrating on the taste, or the smell. (That would be embarrassing!)

READY FOR BED: Three hours of incorrect information, Huntington vs. Huntingdon, on Facebook…

and an article updated more than an hour after it was written with that same mistake, plus Air Station still lowercase.

So as of now: CBS3 got the location right, and also a picture.

6ABC got the location right, but no picture.

And NBC 10 got the picture, but misspelled the location. 

Final thought: Facts don’t matter to Fox 29 Philadelphia. “Likely half the staff & budget” — along with burritos and Sonic — are more important.

RIP, Marines.

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UPDATE, Friday, April 6, 2018: Same mistake from last night still up on Facebook and the article, except picture of the deceased added.

Now today, do you see anything local on these two stories in the Local News section? Do you know why they’re there, other than not paying attention to detail?