Friday, February 27, 2015

Channel 5/WPTV: Image from their news story in 2013 used out of context in 2015

In a local Lake Worth Facebook page came across this item from Karl Dickey
at the blog West Palm Beach Libertarian Examiner.

He picked up on the ridiculous story about the Common Ground (no 's') Church story here in the little City of Lake Worth. Here is an excerpt:
     Yesterday, February 22, 2015, members of the Libertarian Party of Palm Beach County showed up to see how they could help with a local church's fight with the City of Lake Worth over licensing. The Common Ground church borrows space from the Common Grounds coffee house at 12 S J St in Lake Worth for a few hours a week.
At the top of the blog post was this picture taken from the Channel 5/WPTV website:
Any reasonable person would conclude that this story was so important that the best TV news station in Palm Beach County was on this story, correct? WRONG!

This image was lifted from a Ch5/WPTV news story from July 16, 2013. Look at the following image I took from the Channel 5 story from 2013 I screen grabbed today (2/27/15):
Look familiar?
The story by WPTV on 7/16/2013 was a positive story on how Lake Worth was making a strong effort to improve Code Enforcement in the City. Lake Worth Mayor Pam Triolo was interviewed in the story by Channel 5's Ryan Calhoun. Since this story by Channel 5 many improvements have been made to Code Enforcement, including the demolition of many dilapidated/unsafe structures.