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Author Topic: Small theaters struggle as Hollywood goes digital Edward Havens Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 614 From: Los Angeles, CA Registered: Mar 2008 posted 04-15-2013 03:14 PM                     I'm sorry, Mike, that I expect basic journalistic standards like fact-checking when it comes to the news and those who report it. It's quite probable the subjects of the article claimed something that wasn't true, the writer didn't fact-check the statement and didn't question the subjects when it was discovered a drive-in in Idaho had installed a Barco digital projector at their location the previous July.  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 04-15-2013 08:34 PM                     It's pretty ironic to yell about journalistic credibility when your own here is extremely suspect. The guy said "Digital projectors for drive-in didn't exist." And while that is not exactly the same as the more accurate "digital projectors that met my needs didn't exist", it is clearly not the same as your interpretation of "digital projectors didn't exist."  |  IP: Logged Edward Havens Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 614 From: Los Angeles, CA Registered: Mar 2008 posted 04-16-2013 09:01 AM                     Sorry, Chris, I did not alter the quote. Point of order, you did.  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-16-2013 11:41 AM                        quote: Michael Marini She recently contacted digital projection companies to find out her options. A digital projector for a drive-in theater -- a piece of equipment that wasn't available when Edwards and he husband invested their $40,000 in 2011 There actually is no quote, at least not from the theatre operators. It's a paraphrase by the reporter. If you've had any experience with reporters, especially small town papers, you know facts and words mangled all of the time. The actual paraphrase if vague at best, and could mean any of the things that have been suggested. So, unless someone wants to call the reporter and see if there's a tape, there's no resolution here.  |  IP: Logged Mike Frese Master Film Handler Posts: 465 From: Holts Summit, MO Registered: Jun 2007 posted 04-16-2013 01:21 PM                        Why did they had to spend $40,000 when they knew they would need to convert very soon? To me, they made a mistake spending that much and they are trying to cover their ass. I have showed many times where theater operators will say about anything to get sympathy. This is another example. Seriously....why did they have to spend $40,000 in 2011 for a film projector?  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 04-16-2013 01:45 PM                        Good question -- I gave my film projector (and platter and everything else) away for free in 2011. Actually, I "sold" it all for $100, but close enough.  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 04-16-2013 03:53 PM                     quote: Edward Havens Sorry, Chris, I did not alter the quote. Point of order, you did. If all you got out of that is that I paraphrased it instead of directly copying it, then you totally fail at reading comprehension.  |  IP: Logged Edward Havens Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 614 From: Los Angeles, CA Registered: Mar 2008 posted 04-16-2013 04:02 PM                     Fine, Chris. You are the shit and I am just a shithead. You win. That's all that apparently matters to you in all this discussion.  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 04-16-2013 04:25 PM                     Fair enough. I was in the middle of rewriting that to be a lot less dickish before realizing you'd already responded. So, my issue was that you, in my estimation, inserted meaning not by changing the quote but by the interpretation of it. Guy says "A digital projector for drive-ins was unavailable in 2011." You interpret that as "No digital projectors were available." While your interpretation could be what the owner meant, I think it is more likely that it isn't what the owner meant. And as has been pointed out, it's quite common for authors in these situations to not give an accurate description of what the party meant to have written.  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 04-16-2013 05:24 PM                        Yer damn tootin', Toots! The local weekly paper here does a "Man on the Street" thing where they camp out at the post office and grab the next half-dozen people who walk in, taking their picture and getting their answer to a question about something that's happening around town. I got nabbed last week and what they printed in this week's paper was shortened and paraphrased to an extent that it lost all meaning. After reading that, I thought that I should have known better than to talk to those guys -- they've done that to me before, too.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-17-2013 09:09 AM                     If I'm not mistaken, the Christie CP2230 was available in 2010 as was the NC3200C so, in fact a "suitble" projector did exist in 2010 so the complaint about non-availability of a suitable projector was false to begin with. I don't consider it the reporter's job to fact check that in this sort of story. They are reporting on what the owner claimed, not the validity of the claim.  |  IP: Logged

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