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• Would You Have Jumped? Teen Gets Huge Surprise When He Leaps Into Seemingly Small Puddle

  March 13, 2013 at 12:15pm

  In reply to kenndeaux.

  @Berbel73

  I welcome some of TheBlaze stories that don’t meet the standard of serious journalism. Interesting clips are fine with me. My problem is all of the grammatical errors. My point is this. In order to publish a story that is accurate you must look it over to ensure that what you wrote is what you intended to write, or to ensure that you laid out the facts correctly. If you proof read your article for correctness (The Truth) before publishing it, then it would seem that you would catch the obvious errors.

  The fact that there are so many errors tells me that they don’t do much checking for accuracy before they publish. That is a problem, and leads me to wonder if the story is correct or not. When I send an important email, I read over it first to make sure it’s right. I CAN’T IMAGINE posting a story for millions of people to read without going over it first!

  And yes, there is a long list of stories that meet this poor standard on TheBlaze.

  Some of us just want to see some improvement at TheBlaze, because 1) we want the truth and 2) we want them to succeed.

• Would You Have Jumped? Teen Gets Huge Surprise When He Leaps Into Seemingly Small Puddle

  March 13, 2013 at 12:00pm

  In reply to BarackInsaneNobama.

  Yes, we know it’s a fake story – look at the water marks around the hole before he jumps etc. I enjoy some of the interesting NON NEWS story’s that TheBlaze posts. I think a lot of us are unhappy about the way this story was portrayed to us as being true, when it most likely is not true.

  I think there is a story here though. There is value in adding this footage of your database, because sometimes things aren’t always as they appear – and that is the story here. I would have not portrayed this event as true, and that is why we are bothered, because we demand the truth from TheBlaze!

• Would You Have Jumped? Teen Gets Huge Surprise When He Leaps Into Seemingly Small Puddle

  March 13, 2013 at 10:33am

  In reply to kenndeaux.

  Bit by bit, day by day, story by story TheBlaze is descending into irrelevancy. Here is an entirely faked event and TheBlaze is reporting it as a true story . . . Lis Klimas wraps up her account with “Moral of the story is it’s pot hole season. As you can see in the surrounding environment in the video, there are still mounds of snow hanging around. Freeze-thaws throughout the winter season could have created gaping pot holes — puddle jumpers be warned.”

  TheBlaze refuses to proof read their stories before publishing them and thus they are often laden with errors. For me I am clicking on TheBlaze less often each passing month. I need a news outlet that publishes the truth, TheBlaze is demonstrating to me that they are not up to that task. I find that sad!

• Federal Court Finds No Constitutional Right to Carry a Concealed Weapon — We Explain The Decision

  February 25, 2013 at 4:20pm

  In reply to wilbstal.

  I agree this headline is very deceptive. I don’t like that from a news organization that needs my trust!

• Federal Court Finds No Constitutional Right to Carry a Concealed Weapon — We Explain The Decision

  February 25, 2013 at 4:16pm

  I agree, this headline is completely deceptive. I don’t like being tricked by a news organization that needs my trust!

• Dem Congressman Claims There’s a Major Historical Error in ‘Lincoln’

  February 6, 2013 at 11:59am

  In reply to e7705.

  You wood also think that when riding a story about someone else’s accuracy problem, that you would make shore that your being accurate, wood’nt You? … Making a funny about a serious point.

• Dem Congressman Claims There’s a Major Historical Error in ‘Lincoln’

  February 6, 2013 at 11:47am

  In reply to e7705.

  You’re right E7705. I want The Blaze to be successful, but they refuse to proof read their stories before publishing. I have politely contacted the authors and Blaze Editor Scott Baker several times about the errors in their stories, and their reaction has been extremely dismissive.

  My point is this:

  1) I expect them to report the truth. To do so would require them to PROOF READ the story to make sure their facts are correct, and that the story unfolds as they intended. It would seem logical, that during this proof reading for accuracy, they would catch grammatical errors and fix them. Since there are a plethora of grammatical errors on The Blaze, I can only conclude that they DO NOT proof read their articles for ACCURACY before they publish. This leaves me feeling that some of their news must contain errors. (I remember a story where they had a picture of an object that was black, and in their story they described the item as being white. That was blatant sloppiness).

  2) A news outlet with this many errors is unprofessional.

  I have been unsuccessful in getting them to improve by contacting them privately behind the scenes. The only way we can get them to do a better job is if enough of us call them out, and demand a better product.

  To The Blaze, please react, because I want you to succeed, but at this point I am extremely leery of your workmanship!

• Killers Beware: Students in This School District Will Now Be Protected by 14 Recently Purchased AR-15s

  January 23, 2013 at 9:14pm

  The Fontana Unified School District Police Department is refusing leave students unprotected

  “it’s the bet message we can send to anybody that thinks to harm our children.”

  After you write an article, and then you read over it to see if your FACTS are correct, wouldn’t you notice your errors in the story? Wouldn’t you then fix them – before you publish the article?

  I can only assume that you ARE NOT proof reading the stories to see if they are FACTUALLY correct.

  How can I believe that these Blaze stories are true? Sadly, because of the rampant sloppiness with these stories, I have less and less faith in your credibility.

  Sometimes when I read an article on The Blaze, I look to see who wrote it. If it’s someone who has posted stories with lots of errors in the past I stop reading and close the story, and move on to another one. It’s not worth my time to be potentially misinformed.

  I must know what you are publishing is true. If you can’t look over an article to make sure it’s correct before publishing it then I CANNOT TRUST YOU!

  Please, help us to have faith in you and to trust you! It’s your choice.

• Asian Stocks Tank on U.S. Election News

  November 7, 2012 at 1:08am

  I am ashamed at the Blaze on this story. This story is deceptive plain and simple. No, I am angry with the lack of integrity with this article. I’m looking at the world futures markets right now, and most are up, and some are down, but NONE of them are TANKING as of my posting. I feel bad enough about the election results, but now I have to reconcile the fact that the Blaze is not reporting honestly or honorably.

• Coal Miners Release Scathing Ad Accusing Obama of ‘Lies’ When Referencing Them

  October 15, 2012 at 12:55pm

  In reply to duhTruth.

  This article: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/see-a-cop-use-his-car-to-stop-an-88-year-old-man-driving-the-wrong-way-and-he-knew-it/ generated these responses from readers.

  “Kenneth Gill Scarborough, Maine,”
  that should be “Kenneth Gill OF Scarborough, Maine,”
  “He’s been involved in other chases and popular cases in Main”?
  it’s spelled MAINE.
  does anyone actually read these things before it gets posted?

  “So what did Scarborough say once he get out of the care?” You mean car?
  Apparently Blaze writers don’t know how to use the spelling and grammar check function.

  Apparently Kenneth Gill changed his name to Scarborough after the first paragraph was written.

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  um, Jonathan, perhaps some editing prior to posting? The man’s name was Gill, from Scarborough, Maine. And yes that’s Maine, not Main.

  Also, in the second paragraph, the writer calls Trooper Cropper “Copper”.
  The Blaze needs more proof readers.

  I could go on and on with other articles. I emailed Scott Baker and pleaded with him to proof-read the news before publishing. His response shocked me. He said, “Our rule at TheBlaze is to post quickly and correct as we go. The internet is an inherently self-correcting medium! Editors and writers review and make changes and readers help us quickly with feedback and corrections.”

  Wouldn’t it be nice if TheBlaze proof-read and fact checked once or twice,