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http://www.newsweek.com/what-its-holiday...ava-294512
Check these out:
"But on June 27 that all changed when lava took hold of Pahoa’s only major highway, effectively cutting off the village from its surrounding communities."
"Pahoa Marketplace, the shopping district, was home to a number of retail shops, a large grocery market and some commercial offices. Today, the marketplace is deserted, with one notable exception: Island Naturals, a health food store that has decided to remain open as lava bubbles less than a half a mile away."
"While alternative routes are being built in and out of Pahoa, traffic has become extremely congested after the highway closed due to an influx of tourists coming into town to see the lava and repair crews. While another small town is only 20 miles away, locals told Newsweek it took 40 minutes to drive there with traffic. Hilo is up to two hours away with traffic, though it’s only a 36-mile drive."
The "reporter" has no concept of what is going on, nor any idea on how to do research. It is obvious she has never been here. I bet that our Tripadvisor "Destination Expert" twins could do better than this.
Here is the reporters email address:
p.mosendz@newsweek.com
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Locals were left to do holiday shopping at Island Naturals, which has a particularly popular gift section: beer and wine.
Yes, we drink so much we continue to drive on a highway that's closed, and get lunch at imaginary restaurants in the deserted marketplace. In fact, I must have had so much beer and wine in my system the other day, I thought Pahoa Fresh Fish and #1 Chinese Barbeque were both packed with customers.
I don't think it's Puna residents who are doing all the drinking. Newsweek appears to pay their writers by the bottle.
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They completely left out Jungle Love who were open through Christmas Eve, and clearly missed all of old town Pahoa.
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36 miles into hilo eh? And it takes 2 hours now?
But, sadly, I think the reporter would have gotten it right if 130 had closed or dare I say, when 130 closes.
I find it "EXTREMELY" funny how Billy and CD opened up Rail Road Ave so that motorist can get a "feel" for the drive. Uh, No... I'm not taking that road unless I absolutely have to. What is there to get use to? It's a dirt/gravel crap road that is going to be destroyed in no time when 130 does close and there is 3-5K cars making a round trip commute on it. Not to mention the trucks and buses ripping it up. Ah well. The more I think about it, the more I agree with this reporter "IF/When" 130 get's sliced in half by Lava. So far we have been extremely lucky and the best Xmas present Pahoa could get is that 130 has still remained open.
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I thought I was reading "the Enquirer", not "Newsweek".
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The university level products of "Schools of Journalism" strike again.
I think I might like to read "The Enquirer" perspective instead,punalvr. LOL.
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Ever since the Ferguson scandal we can consider most of mainstream US media to be totally unaccountable since none have yet been charged with inciting riots. Not charging them with criminal offenses has set a new low standard of journalism, as if we thought it could have gotten any worse.
They have simply gone rogue, it's very bizarre and is having a trickling affect into all aspects of our life.
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I submitted a request for a correction/retraction yesterday after reading this. I can't believe the editors didn't fact check it before publication.
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How far back does this sort of outright fabrications in journalism go? IMO, it really started to take root and increase around the early to mid 1990's such as the Oklahoma bombings. Since those initial inconsistencies between local reported facts vs. very different stories spun through national reporting of the incident we have slipped off a cliff. Before the Oklahoma inconsistencies incident, CNN had been caught green/blue screening backdrops, using props and claiming they were reporting in the field when in fact they were in a studio and faking the story... those scud missile attacks over in Iraq. Anyone recall the two journalist hunkered down fearing death from scuds? Completely phony and done in a CNN studio.
http://www.staticmediahub.com/2014/09/25...le-attack/ This is just one example of many.
The number of these incidents aren't even countable anymore. One lie after another.
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Originally posted by punalvr
I thought I was reading "the Enquirer", not "Newsweek".
punalvr
I thought exactly the same thing.
I wonder what Russell Ruderman thought of his employee's comments?
