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I had emailed them poiting out the fact error and the news director wrote me back:

Thanks for writing. You are one of hundreds of viewers who thankfully took
the time to point out Michael Garfield's error in this story. In fairness,
Michael produces his stories at our sister station in Houston, which then
sends them to us for air in Austin. The Downloadable music story was
produced way back in early September and because of a glitch in our system
was not aired until last week. Michael's story was substantially correct in
September, but obviously completely wrong after October 16th.
    In a tech friendly city like Austin, that was a mistake we should
have caught and we are deeply embarrassed by it. Apple I-tunes is certainly
available for PC now.
    Due to this mistake, we have instituted new procedures to make
doubly sure timely stories are aired on a timely basis, and stories in which
facts have changed will not be aired at all.
    I appreciate your note and ask your forgiveness. Michael knows what
he's talking about even if we at News 8 are not perfect. We have updated the
web story and did indeed run a correction all weekend.
    Thanks for watching News 8 Austin.

Kevin Benz
News Director
News 8 Austin

Well it's at least step in the right direction

I got the same email. I responded to him and told him he might want to change the spelling of I-Tunes to iTunes or he can expect to see a similar amount of emails coming back.

It was the High Tech Texan (Michael Garfield's nickname) who made the mistake?  Wow, that doesn't surprise me.  Being from Houston he's on most of the station's here a lot and it's tough to find substance in his reports since most of the time he's just a walking advertisement for Road Runner.

Alright, it wasn't a "mistake" per se, I understand accidentally airing an old report but if you ever hear the guy there's just something in his voice that makes him sound off about whatever he's talking about.

It was the High Tech Texan...

Oh, please? Why not...

"The highfalutinest, high techest, rootin' tootinest geek, west of the Mississippi..."


Weeell, doggies!

I got the same letter... heh...

I had emailed them poiting out the fact error and the news director wrote me back:

Thanks for writing. You are one of hundreds of viewers who thankfully took
the time to point out Michael Garfield's error in this story. In fairness,
Michael produces his stories at our sister station in Houston, which then
sends them to us for air in Austin. The Downloadable music story was
produced way back in early September and because of a glitch in our system
was not aired until last week. Michael's story was substantially correct in
September, but obviously completely wrong after October 16th.
    In a tech friendly city like Austin, that was a mistake we should
have caught and we are deeply embarrassed by it. Apple I-tunes is certainly
available for PC now.
    Due to this mistake, we have instituted new procedures to make
doubly sure timely stories are aired on a timely basis, and stories in which
facts have changed will not be aired at all.
    I appreciate your note and ask your forgiveness. Michael knows what
he's talking about even if we at News 8 are not perfect. We have updated the
web story and did indeed run a correction all weekend.
    Thanks for watching News 8 Austin.

Kevin Benz
News Director
News 8 Austin

Well it's at least step in the right direction

I got the same email. I responded to him and told him he might want to change the spelling of I-Tunes to iTunes or he can expect to see a similar amount of emails coming back.

I got that same smurf too.

Can someone please tell me why PC people have such a hard time with iStuff.  It's either Istuff or IStuff or I-Stuff, why can't they just write it they way they see it written?!

Can someone please tell me why PC people have such a hard time with iStuff.  It's either Istuff or IStuff or I-Stuff, why can't they just write it they way they see it written?!

It's a lack of anti-aliasing, rotting there brains...

because they're using Word to write stuff and it automatically corrects it.






oh, and i guess this situation turned out for better. by messing up, they had to run a correction all weekend as the guy said. which is probably better than a one-time air. think about it.

Yes, but who watches the news on the weekend?

Later, Frank