Note the correction to the address. The article originally reported the dairy plant was a couple of blocks away, on the corner of Rainier Avenue S. and South Genessee Street.
which repeats the mistaken address of the first ammonia leak (in the last paragraph).
According to Yahoo! Maps, the site of the first ammonia leak is exactly six miles from the offices of the P-I. A Metro bus fare (with transfer for the return trip) costs $1.25 ($1.50 during peak hours), and could have carried a reporter to the scene for what would be a mere footnote on an expense account. The intersections in the vicinity of the Dairygold plant are marked with signs which bear the names of the streets.
Alternately, the reporter could have consulted a telephone directory, or a map, for even less expense than bus fare.
When a newspaper fails to get such things correct for stories that are this close to the home office, one begins to wonder about the level of accuracy in other matters as well.
posted on July 12, 2002 08:01 PM
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Apparently no-one in Seattle's "media" can get addresses straight. The day of the smoke bomb at the local Marsh branch, the radio kept saying the problem was at 1214 Fourth Avenue which would have put it squarely in the middle of the Olympic Hotel. The address of the Financial Center building is 1215 Fourth. Pretty simple stuff, especially if you can remember "east=even" and "northeast" which tells you that even street numbers are on the north and east sides of the street.
posted on July 12, 2002 08:01 PM
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