Last Friday several area radio stations were reporting Pittsburgh was going to have a new bishop appointed that day by Pope Benedict XVI. WORD FM was not reporting that information but many others were. It turned out to be wrong.
KDKA radio was one of the stations that initially reported a new bishop of Pittsburgh would be named that day, then corrected it to say it wasn’t going to happen after talking to Father Ron Lengwin, diocesan spokesman.
“We were going on information from both the Associated Press and our correspondent in Rome, who is affiliated with CBS radio and who was instrumental in helping us break the story that Bishop Wuerl was going to Washington last year,” said Marshall Adams, director of news/talk programming at KDKA radio. “Certainly, it was a gamble, but we felt that it was a risk worth taking."
Hank Baughman, news director at WSHH-FM in Pittsburgh, said that every morning he gets a brief rundown of stories that have run overnight on other local radio and TV stations.
“It said, ‘Pope Benedict expected today to name bishop of Pittsburgh,’” Baughman said. “I said, ‘OK.’ So I went with it, as did several other places.”
It make one wonder about the trustworthyness of our news outlets. In the race to get the story sometimes the story just gets made up. I'm sure Pittsburgh will get a Bishop and when it really does happen we will let you know.
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