Why Do We Bother?

One of the things this blog has been very hard on is the media in general and media accuracy specifically. I've mentioned before that if you take a subject you are a real expert in and read a media report on that subject, you will be shaking your head in short order. Because you will know they have got some - or a lot - of the facts wrong. Then you'll turn to the next page and read about something else and assume they are right.

Uh, sure.

So we come to this gem from no less than ABC News.

An attack on French soil is likely to happen in the next few weeks or months, according to a senior French foreign intelligence official, who said today that they are on the highest state of alert since 9/11.

This comes amidst news reports of a terrorist plot during the holiday season to strike the Channel tunnel, or Chunnel, that runs between London and Paris. (Emphasis added.)

The "Chunnel" runs between Folkestone, Kent in England to Coquelles near Calais in northern France. I took a screenshot, because I suspect they'll get around to changing that when enough people laugh at them. And it is so freaking hard to look these troublesome facts up on the interwebby tubes these days. (They have a helpful map. Maybe they could provide another. That way ABC News could find their collective butt with both hands.)