Scotty's Blog

“Got apology?”

First and foremost, Scotty is going to address a little issue that happened today. It’s interesting that this conference stressed today that the when reporting it is important to get the story and the facts right. When reporting these facts to individuals it is expected that both of these are correct. Today that didn’t happen at the Washington Media and Journalism Conference. A certain woman, I won’t name drop, had her story correct. “Break the Tape” blog was real. However, she failed to get the facts right and present them in a manner that made her story correct. A simple matter of switching the last name with the first name, caused an innocent man, your own Scotty, to be wrongly accussed in front of the rest of his national youth correspondents. Furthermore, when the matter was sorted out with this woman, she failed to offer an apology to me, and to the rest of the national youth correspondents for getting the facts wrong. So in journalism, I take it that it is not the media’s job to apologize for the misreprsentation of facts. Well Scotty is here to progress journalism and make it better. By admitting mistakes and apologizing for accidentially slandering innocent people, perhaps the media will gain a better rep and brighter future. I urge my fellow national youth correspondents to take the steps to man up, or in this case, “woman up,” and apologize for any misrepresentation of fact you make and for the people it may hurt. As for accused, I forgive you. It’s not too late, however, for you to come forward and apologize to my face, and in front of the rest of the correspondents.