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Originally Posted by Acey
Yeah Google Maps confirmed that for me after I made the thread, I don't know the area. CBC/Global are saying Mission or Beltline, and its neither... you'd think they'd know better.
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The media is notoriously bad for this. It's understandable in the first moments of the event when details from witnesses, etc. are mixed, but it's not just that. Once the location is nailed down, they still routinely mix up communities and areas or just plain use incorrect names. "Victoria Park" is not a community, 19th Avenue and 5th Street SW isn't in Beltline or Bankview, Inglewood and Ramsay are two different places, etc.
During the flood, it was particularly bad from media and even some of the communications from Emergency Services and other people from the City. Beltline, Mission and other affected areas were routinely grouped into vague amorphous and incorrect areas such as "parts of downtown," (sorry flameswin, you're wrong on this one) or the non-existent "Victoria Park community." Although not as bad, Sunnyside was mis-communicated as "the Kensington area" (Kensington is not actually a community in Calgary - it's a BRZ) or Hillhurst (even though there was actually very little flooding in the Hillhurst side of the community).
In the case of most media stories such as this, it's not as serious a mistake to make, although in aggregate it shows a laziness and it's annoying. In situations such as the flood and considering many people from the City got it wrong too, it's actually a little more serious as a lot of people were confused as to how flooding and evacuations affected their area. In that case it approaches irresponsible.