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Tough week (or so) in TV Land

About the same time when Channel 6 goofed this past week with its police-shooting report, Channel 10 and Leslie Yeransian, a newish reporter, were in the process of severing ties with one another. Tom Mooney had the details in yesterday's ProJo:

A WJAR television reporter whose recent two-part series called into question the effectiveness of Rhode Island tourism centers — and set off a storm of controversy — is leaving Channel 10 as of tomorrow, the station’s general manager confirmed yesterday.

Station general manager Lisa Churchville would not say whether the departure of Leslie Yeransian was related to her report, which resulted in the station issuing an on-air apology and its ombudsman criticizing the reporting.

“We wish her well,” said Churchville.

The profile of Yeransian, who did not return an inquiry sent by N4N to her personal e-mail address has since gotten in touch with me (stay tuned), appeared gone from Channel 10's Web site by mid-week. According to her personal Web site, she's a graduate of Smith College and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, with a specialty in business and economics from the Kellogg School of Management.

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  • Leslie Yeransian said:

    I'm not gone. I'm right here.

    Feel free to contact me anytime.

    Leslie.Yeransian@gmail.com

    617.733.1225

    July 27, 2008 2:57 PM
  • Larry said:

    ABC6 should follow in the foot steps of Channel 10.  Inaccuracies like these should not, in any way, shape or form be tolerated...especially not in this field of work.  It's just like being a lawyer, if you misrepresent facts then there will be severe reprecussions to follow.

    July 27, 2008 3:46 PM
  • Jack said:

    As a former co-worker of Lisa's, who wants to remain anonymous, I can say that she SHOULD have been fired.  While I have only met Malini, hers was an honest mistake, albeit careless.  Lisa outright misled viewers.  Her mistake was not a MISTAKE--she knew what she was doing.  She just happen to get caught.  Big Difference.

    July 27, 2008 6:16 PM
  • Joe said:

    What about Taricani? He was in the piece too.

    July 27, 2008 8:19 PM
  • KinkyKathy said:

    This is why your Royal Kinkstress eschews TV (the porno flicks excepted). They get everything wrong. Plus they profile boring women in their eighties in Warwick at boring yard sales, or they trot out boring councilmen saying boring provincial things about cops and graffitti (sp?).

    July 27, 2008 8:25 PM
  • Linda said:

    CARELESSNESS AFFECTS THE JOB! Carelessness is a form of irresponsibility especially relative to the type of work involved.  If something so simple can be messed how will anything with more depth be handled?

    July 27, 2008 9:10 PM
  • Sanders said:

    I agree with Larry.  Journalists are responsible for relaying accurate information all the time as that is what their job requires.  Malini Basu gave incorrect twice within the same report. Fine, she made one mistake, she had a chance to fix it, but then she goes ahead and provides ADDITIONAL incorrect information.  And then she (or the station) attempts to blame their police source! I have not seen this happen in any news report without any sort of action taken by a station. Intentional or not, both of these reporters have shown themselves not to be within the standards required to be deemed as reliable reporters.

    July 27, 2008 9:23 PM
  • Joe said:

    As a former journalist, I can tell you, police get it wrong ALL THE TIME. I am certainly not condoning Miss Basu's actions....simply stating that officers -- like the rest of us-- make mistakes in fluid situations.  At least a dozen times I have had firefighters, PIOs or some other official give me the wrong information, initially.  From the way I understand it, a police officer said shots were fired and the suspects got two of their guys.  Either Miss Basu misunderstood or the officer--based on scanner traffic--initially thought two of his guys WERE  shot.  Regardless, it seems as if it was an unacceptable, but innocent mistake.

    July 27, 2008 11:46 PM
  • Peter Khan Zendran said:

    Having been in journalism for 8 years and having worked as an advocate for 10 years I can say Leslie did nothing wrong.  She called the story as she saw it, and as usual the mass of rhode island retards could not handle the fact how sucky their state appeared as in real life on her report.  If you can't handle straightforward reporting then you need treatment, not scapecoating other people.

    August 7, 2008 4:28 PM
  • All about Ethics.... said:

    Calling the story as you see it has nothing to do with Journalism.

    REAL journalists deliver the FACTS...they do not "spin" stories into how they see it.

    The outsourced location was for BROCHURES only. it was not in their job description to answer questions on Quahogs, and Italian eateries.

    Also.....specifically misusing a quote is completely against journalistic ethics.

    Leslie did RI a huge disservice by not delivering viewers what they deserved...a factual not fictional story. the end.

    August 25, 2008 7:45 PM
  • Peter Khan Zendran said:

    Calling the story as you see it is everything journalism is about.  Had you taken the time to investigate Leslie's story you would have seen she did NOTHING wrong.  What she did was present a factual story which touched a nerve because it showed just what a joke RI is.  And to prove that point they made her a scapegoat for taricani, who did the spadework, and everyone else involved in the story.  No spin was involved, just harsh reality.

    August 27, 2008 12:44 PM

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