Remember when someone (or someones) started slashing tires in Mayfair and all the TV news stations dug out their GPS devices and rushed to the Northeast? Of course you do. The slashing have slowed, but cars across the Northeast are still being vandalized.

As recently as April 1, tires were slashed on the 3500-block of Decatur Street. In Holmesburg. But the first slashing happened in Mayfair, and just because a crime pattern changes doesn’t mean the TV stations will react accordingly. continue reading »

Where is the Morrell Park Shop Rite? It’s in Torresdale if you ask Channels 6, 3 and 10.

When a car crashed into the store in late February, TV news vans rushed to the scene to get the scoop. But the scoop matters little if the reporters can’t actually figure out where they are. You’d think the habit of calling neighborhoods by street names would have at least worked in their favor this time – Morrell Avenue is right there.

We’ll let these screenshots speak for themselves. continue reading »

It’s pretty clear at this point big media outlets aren’t putting in the work it takes to discern a neighborhood from a street.

So that non of us has to do work, may we suggest that the city just expand Frankford to include everything on Frankford Avenue?

The southern-most Frankford border along the avenue is at the Torresdale Avenue intersection — 3.3. miles away, you’ll find the 1500- and 1700- blocks of Frankford Avenue. continue reading »

Let’s get right to the point: Finding the Mayfair, Tacony and Holmesburg borders is no easy feat, even for the people who live there.

The three neighborhoods’ civic associations and town watch groups work pretty closely together, and the Mayfair Business Association’s boundaries stretch beyond the neighborhood.

So we could maybe look past the fact that a fire in Tacony was reported as Mayfair by CBS3. But the North Philadelphia headline is unacceptable. continue reading »

This is a first for Right NEast/Wrong NEast: the same story appearing twice.

Last month, both CBS3 and the Police Department got a little lost when a Wissinoming store owner fought off a robber. Though the crime happened on the 6000-block of Torresdale Avenue, both originally reported the crime happened in Torresdale. CBS3 correctly reported the neighborhood in a follow-up story.

But not to be outdone, Action News has gone ahead and made the exact same error — just a few weeks later. In its coverage of the arrest of the man wanted in connection with the robbery, Channel 6 says the crime happened in Torresdale: continue reading »

There’s a lot of confusion among our large news outlets about where Oxford Circle is.

It’s not in Frankford.

It’s not everything west of the Boulevard.

It’s not east of the Boulevard at all. continue reading »

Do you live west of Roosevelt Boulevard and south of Rhawn Street?

Then you live in Oxford Circle, according to CBS3. As little knowledge as the mainstream media have about the Northeast, they seem to be in particular need of a geography lesson on the west side of Roosevelt Boulevard. Because as many have done, and as CBS3 proves with this story, they tend to just label everything as Oxford Circle. continue reading »

Not an uncommon argument around the Northeast, the debate about Kensington goes back and forth. Is it, or is it not, Northeast.

We take the side of most Northeast (and Kensington) residents, and believe it’s not. Most larger media outlets follow this rule, as well. CBS3 does not. continue reading »

Paul Schlear, of the Northeast, admitted to CBS3 yesterday that he has posed as a Catholic priest.

By Christopher Wink

The man who posed as a priest to comfort the family of a Philadelphia police officer seriously injured in a car crash last month is from the Northeast.

NEast Philly hasn’t yet independently confirmed what neighborhood he calls home, but Paul Schlear, 26, dressed as and referred to himself as a local Catholic priest to enter the intensive-care unit at the Torresdale campus of the old Frankford hospital to visit the family of Officer Richard Hayes, as reported by CBS3.

“I feel terrible for the Hayes family because they’re going through enough and I didn’t nee to do what I did,” he told CBS3.

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Outside media don’t care about the Northeast. We have all seen them misuse, misspell and mistake our neighborhoods and our streets, so we at NEast mag wanted to do something about it. When they get it wrong, we set it right in a segment we like to call Right NEast/Wrong NEast.

By Shannon McDonald

In its report about two separate shootings Thursday night, CBS3 slipped up. When detailing the death of 29-year-old Hasan McKinney, CBS3 reported he died on the 1100-block of Passmore Avenue. Unfortunately for the news channel (and more unfortunately for The NEast), the tiny, one-way block McKinney died on is a Street.

Looks as though CBS3 is satisfied enough with just covering the Northeast – doing it accurately is something else entirely.