Nov2
What if we told you something happened in Northwest Philadelphia near Fairmount Park? Would you know where to look to find that news story. You wouldn’t, but you also wouldn’t see a mainstream news outlet report something so vague.
Why then, do the media insist on using Pennypack Park as a geographic identifier? Case in point: NBC10 and Philly.com.
Back in September, a horrific crash on Roosevelt Boulevard left a child injured and a mother dead. The media were all over it, rushing to be the first to the scene. And in that haste came these reports: “on the boulevard in the area of Pennypack Park.” continue reading »
Jul14
So NBC10 reporters were on the scene yesterday when a man got stuck in the creek at Pennypack Park in Holmesburg.
Or, as you can read on NBC’s website, a man was stuck in the Pennypack creek in Frankford.
Rescue crews saved a man struggling to stay afloat in Pennypack Creek in the Frankford section of the city Tuesday morning.” continue reading »
Jun30
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
The city’s larger media outlets could not agree this weekend when a speeding driver injured two police officers early Sunday morning.
The accident happened around 1 a.m. on the 4200-block of Aramingo Avenue. That’s about all the reporters can agree on. continue reading »
May26
By Shannon McDonald
A Saturday night fire that started in an apartment building in Upper Holmesburg quickly spread to three homes. It happened on the 4400-block of Kendrick Street, and one person sustained minor injuries.
NBC10 has video.
Feb27
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 their ongoing coverage of the elderly Frankford man whose neighbor beat him to death, FOX29 and NBC10 screwed up our neighborhoods.
The stations qualified the killing as Oxford Cirlcle, but, as the Frankford Gazette also points out, the murder took place at Saul and Anchor streets. That’s to the east of The Boulevard, and is definitely not in Oxford Circle.
