Monday, February 29, 2016

ABC25/WPBF 'TV News' does it again. Was a family of 6 forced from their home by a fire in Lake Worth? No.

Here's the latest false news report from ABC25:
LAKE WORTH, Fla. —A family of six is temporarily displaced after a house fire in Lake Worth. Albert Borroto, spokesman for Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue, said firefighters received a call just before 11 a.m. Thursday from the 7400 block of Ladson Terrace.
The good news is no one was injured. The 'bad news' is Ladson Terrace is all the way out past Jog Rd. in unincorporated Palm Beach County and just east of the Florida Turnpike. Ladson Terrace has a Lake Worth mailing address; a distinction that is lost on reporters from ABC25.
Where is Lake Worth? It's south of West Palm Beach, north of Lantana, and extends west to the general vicinity of John Prince Park in unincorporated Palm Beach County.
Two more recent examples of false news reports by ABC25 are here and here. WPBF reporters think the City of Lake Worth extends all the way out to the Everglades and they can't grasp the concept that Zip Codes don't correspond to municipal borders.

Even when WPBF does happen to find the City of Lake Worth their news reporting takes on a whole new level of absurdity like the 'news' below about the homeless in West Palm Beach and in Lake Worth:
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. —The same thing that draws tourists to South Florida also draws the homeless.
     It's the story no one want [sic] to talk about until you're harassed.
[and. . .]
      In Lake Worth, another place experiencing a similar problem, the city just passed a law making it illegal to be in Centennial Park, a popular gathering place, after a certain time of night.
The reporter was standing in Lake Worth's Cultural Plaza. There is no park in Lake Worth called "Centennial Park". And so it goes. . .