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 Post subject: Reporter lost at sea
PostPosted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:37 am 
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The Freep gets pretty much everything wrong in this brief.

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Salvaged from the sea
Mazda Motor Corp. workers in Japan are putting in weekend and holiday shifts to replace 4,703 cars that fell into the ocean this summer, Bloomberg reports.

What happened? A freighter hauling Mazda 3's, CX-7 crossovers, MX-5 roadsters and RX-8 sports cars from Hiroshima to Vancouver, British Columbia, tipped over in rough seas off Alaska's Aleutian Islands.

But not all is lost. An undisclosed number of those once-wet wonders will be sold in North America -- although they will be labeled used.


The cars never got wet, they were not salvaged from the sea, the accident was attributed to human error in rebalasting rather than to rough seas, and the tone of "once-wet wonders" could've been more respectful, considering that a rescue worker died during the emergency evac.


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Apart from that, how accurate is the story?


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 8:23 am 
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Vanderhoof Viking wrote:
Apart from that, how accurate is the story?


Well...Vancouver is in British Columbia, if that answers your question.


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Well, did the Freep get it wrong or was it Bloomberg? I've had some horrible experiences with Bloomberg copy...


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The newspaper that published it got it wrong, regardless of whether Bloomberg did.


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Yes, and I'm sure if Bloomberg issues a correction, the Freep will publish it. But I don't think many papers have the staff to independently verify the facts of a story in a wire brief. At my place, if I have time to compare a Bloomberg piece with an AP piece to see if there are inconsistencies, I'm sittin' pretty.


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Note the tagline at story's end ....


- Free Press staff


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Ah. Ignore all my previous messages. That wasn't included in the snippet on the board. Nevermind.


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kren wrote:
Well, did the Freep get it wrong or was it Bloomberg? I've had some horrible experiences with Bloomberg copy...


If the Freep piece was based on this Bloomberg piece, the Freep jumped to conclusions. The Bloomberg piece talks about a 90-degree list but mentions no wet cars.


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Vanderhoof Viking wrote:
Apart from that, how accurate is the story?


Case closed!

This just in, sent from N.A.D.A., a national group representing auto dealers:

WASHINGTON—The National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) today applauded Mazda's decision to scrap all the vehicles on board the Cougar Ace which encountered a ballast tank problem causing it to tip severely with a cargo hold full of vehicles.
While most of the 4,703 Mazdas were unaffected by the incident, questions arose as to the long-term safety of vehicles held at such a severe angle for an extended period.
Even though little visible damage existed on some of the vehicles, Mazda put the customer first and made the right decision to scrap 100 percent of the vehicles because of potential safety concerns." said David Regan, VP of Legislative Affairs with NADA. "This is clear example of good corporate
citizenship."
The ship en route from Asia to several ports in North America nearly capsized off the Aleutian Islands in late July after an incident at sea. The ship sat listing at more than 60 degrees for nearly a month until it was righted and towed to the Port of Portland, Ore., for repairs and to have the vehicles off-loaded.
Mazda's actions with the vehicles on the Cougar Ace mirror their support to make the history of totaled vehicles publicly available.
"Mazda has been an ardent supporter of ensuring that insurance companies disclose the VINs so that consumers and dealers have the information they need to make an educated decision on the value and safety of vehicles," Regan added referring to Mazda's support of total-loss disclosure legislation. "By publicly disclosing the VINs of the questionable vehicles and then choosing to scrap them all together, they show how committed they are to the health and well-being of their customers."
According to a Mazda spokesperson, the VINs of the Cougar Ace vehicles will be submitted to Experian's Autocheck and Carfax, two popular vehicle history databases. The VINs of all of the Cougar Ace vehicles are already available on Mazda's consumer web site.


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