Oregon Media Insiders

Who hasn't made a mistake that they wish they could take back? The difference here is that most of those kind of mistakes are live. The anchor or reporter on a live shot says something, and then realizes "Oh, I shouldn't have said that!" Usually, they hear about it once they get off the air, either from management or a viewer who takes offense. But in an edited package? That shouldn't happen. There should be at least two sets of eyes on every script. Someone should have caught that rape comment before it made air. Deadline pressure or not, everyone has at least a couple of minutes to give a script a last once over before it's tracked. That being said, Thom did do a very good job of covering that story, other than that unfortunate comment.