We’ve gotten lots of reader submissions from Northeast residents who spotted this Action News flub.

Fortunately, there were no injuries in the March 12 car crash in Wissinoming. So Action News stepped in to make sure everyone had something else to talk about. continue reading »

Well then the city’s District Attorney can’t even get Philadelphia’s regions right, no wonder big media outlets have such a hard time.

A Torresdale man was arrested in mid-March for starving his father to death. Surprisingly, all the city newspapers and TV stations either got the neighborhood name right or just played it safe by using “Northeast Philadelphia.”

And then came a blog post from D.A. Seth Williams: continue reading »

We get it, Daily News. You don’t own an updated map and you don’t send reporters to the Northeast unless someone commits a crime or gets elected to office.

So allow us to explain, then, that Burholme is absolutely not in the Far Northeast (Far should be capitalized, by the way; it isn’t in your story).

The Far Northeast begins along Grant Avenue, north of the Northeast Airport. Burholme begins at Tyson Avenue which is roughly three miles south. continue reading »

Wissinoming stretches into the Delaware River. So does Torresdale. Wissinoming’s major thoroughfares include Frankford, Torresdale and State Road. Same goes for Torresdale.

They are not; however, the same neighborhood, or even adjacent.

Someone better tell Devin Haley. He runs Flip That House Philadelphia, “Philadelphia metro’s #1 source for discount wholesale fix and flip/buy and hold properties direct to cash investors, rehabbers, landlords and discount cash homebuyers.” continue reading »

OK, so the school is called Tacony Academy Charter. But it’s in Fox Chase.

Do we let Philly.com slide on this error? Nope.

A news brief about a school closure on March 1 doesn’t mention the school’s address, but the headline indicates a Tacony-based charter school is the subject of the story. continue reading »

Action News must have a routine – make an error, correct it, but miss all the references so there is one obvious mistake hanging around in the story.

Not long after using Frankford and Wissinoming in a story, the news channel did the same with Mayfair and Holmesburg.

A man was shot in the early morning hours of Feb. 2 on the 3500-block of Arthur Street. That’s in Holmesburg, and that’s what the story says – except in the dateline, which says Mayfair. continue reading »

What happens when news takes place on a geographic border? The best decision is to pick a location and stick with it.

Or, if you’re Action News, use both and consider your bases covered.

When a man was shot Jan. 25 on the 2000-block of Bridge Street, there was a decision to be made. Bridge Street divides Wissinoming and Frankford, so where did the murder take place? continue reading »

First of all, CBS3, 19124 is not Mayfair.

Somehow every news outlet in Philadelphia but you managed to determine that Large and Pratt streets intersect in Northwood.

Not Mayfair.

So when a 10-year-old was hit by a car after school, and CBS rushed to alert everyone that a Mayfair child had been struck, parents in that neighborhood had to scramble to account for their kids. continue reading »

We did a little consulting before running this one, worried we’re being too hard on news outlets that appear not to own maps or computers.

But friends in the neighborhood and the local media told us to persevere. A mistake is a mistake, after all, and we’ve corrected this one multiple times.

It’s the curious case of Frankford, in which large media outlets apply their lack of neighborhood knowledge to news reports by calling places Frankford. continue reading »

Aside from the actual thing that went wrong Dec. 9 when a bus hit a teenage boy at Hunting Park and Kensington Avenue, the TV media outlets made sure some other things went wrong, too.

First, we know the crash happened on the other side of the Frankford Creek, meaning it didn’t occur in the Northeast. Strike one for Action News. continue reading »