# Lazy media mistakes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 22, 2022, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-media-mistakes/975379 "2022-11-22T14:31:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2022, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-media-mistakes/975379/81 "2022-11-23T21:55:47Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I remember once seeing Tom Brokaw or Peter Jennings read a news item about Jupiter’s moon, Ten. I had a physics prof who pronounced it I-zero ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2022, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-media-mistakes/975379/82 "2022-11-23T21:59:10Z")
> [@Asuka](#): > > the movies opening crawl makes the claim that D-Day took place on June 6th 1945. > > I shouldn’t have to explain why this is wrong Actually, I can’t see what’s wrong with it. Please explain. Guessing - it’s because the operation took place over multiple days. If that’s your objection, you’re wrong. The term [D-Day](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Day_(military_term)) refers to the start of an operation. If it lasts several days, the next day is D+1, the day after that is D+2, and so on. As for the WWII invasion of Normandy, D-Day took place on June 6th 1945. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2022, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-media-mistakes/975379/83 "2022-11-23T22:01:31Z")
D-Day was in June 1944. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2022, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-media-mistakes/975379/84 "2022-11-23T22:11:50Z")
D’oh. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2022, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-media-mistakes/975379/85 "2022-11-23T22:38:19Z")
It was scheduled to commence on 5 June 1944, but was postponed 24 hours because of bad weather. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2022, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-media-mistakes/975379/86 "2022-11-24T08:56:25Z")
And even if we go by D+ convention, the Germans had capitulated by D+365 (June 6th 1945). ETA: And the Declaration regarding the defeat of Germany had been made on 5th June 1945. > **[Berlin Declaration (1945)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Declaration_(1945))** > > The Berlin Declaration (German: Berliner Erklärung/Deklaration) of 5 June 1945 or the Declaration regarding the defeat of Germany,\[n 1\] had the governments of the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France, acting on behalf of the Allies of World War II, jointly assume de jure "supreme authority" over Germany after its military defeat and asserted the legitimacy of their joint determination of issues regarding its administration and boundaries prior to the forthcoming Potsdam... ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2022, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-media-mistakes/975379/87 "2022-11-24T09:15:12Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I remember once seeing Tom Brokaw or Peter Jennings read a news item about Jupiter’s moon, Ten. Similarly, I’m fairly sure I recall some politician referring to the late North Korean dictator as “Kim Jong the Second”. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2022, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-media-mistakes/975379/88 "2022-11-24T10:14:05Z")
Stock footage not matching is also super obvious and is most likely laziness since they producers/editors don’t want to bother to actually hunt down proper stock footage. Such as at the end of Midway (1976) where during the 1942 Battle of Midway for the ending showing an aircraft crashing on landing, they CLEARLY show a jet aircraft (which you can tell because it has no propeller) crashing onto said deck. In another example in the 1970s TV series Black Sheep Squadron which is about the 1943 air battles over Guadalcanal and the famous titular Black Sheep Squadron flying F4U Corsairs against the Japanese, one episode had them landing their Corsairs on an aircraft carrier only for the stock footage to suddenly be them landing F6F Hellcats on the carrier instead, and it’s super obvious because the planes look completely different. What they couldn’t find actual color stock footage of a F4U Corsair landing on a carrier deck? ---
**Author:** ![TheTooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/919ad9/32.png) [@TheTooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheTooth)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2022, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-media-mistakes/975379/89 "2022-11-24T12:05:30Z")
‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’ was made in the 70’s so you can assume a good chunk of the production budget turned into cocaine. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2022, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-media-mistakes/975379/90 "2022-11-24T13:19:12Z")
Watching _True Detective: Season 3_ get even the most basic facts about Hollywood’s go-to religion, Catholicism, wrong in a conversation between multiple Catholics is … in 2013… a crazy mistake. You would think there is some pamphlet for screenwriters… _So The Wardrobe Department Made Your Character a Catholic Priest_… which has, say, the 20 most salient facts not to get wrong in the script. Like being confused about “prayer hands” 🙏. Or calling “Mass” “Service”, “Worship”, or “Congregating”. Etc, etc, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2022, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-media-mistakes/975379/91 "2022-11-24T13:46:29Z")
> [@Asuka](#): > > In another example in the 1970s TV series Black Sheep Squadron They did make other efforts, though, except it still looks funny. I saw an episode in reruns a few years ago, when they were talking about a plan to send four aircraft on a mission. Except it was obvious that everyone was saying “Five aircraft”, with the “five” overdubbed to “four”. Because when it cuts to the stock footage, there were of course only four planes in the shot. So the scriptwriters messed up, but some editor caught it. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2022, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-media-mistakes/975379/92 "2022-11-24T14:03:53Z")
The camera was in the fifth aircraft. That wasn’t an error at all. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2022, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-media-mistakes/975379/93 "2022-11-24T19:46:13Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Similarly, I’m fairly sure I recall some politician referring to the late North Korean dictator as “Kim Jong the Second”. A newsreader in India was fired for referring to Chinese President Eleven Jinping. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2022, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-media-mistakes/975379/94 "2022-11-24T20:38:11Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > I also wonder how our Southern Hemisphere counterparts feel about the whole “white Christmas” thing. That’s what [Midwinter Christmas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_in_July#Southern_Hemisphere) is for. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2022, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-media-mistakes/975379/95 "2022-11-24T21:06:57Z")
The only episode of _ **Black Sheep Squadron** _ I watched was the one where the Marines and the Army held a competition to determine who would shoot down Yamamoto. There was apparently some trouble finding period footage of P-38s, because the Army jocks were all flying late-model Mustangs that weren’t in service in 1943. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2022, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-media-mistakes/975379/96 "2022-11-24T21:13:51Z")
I forget where I read about it, but someone playing Trivial Pursuit insisted the national airline of Israel is “E-One A-One.” And this wasn’t a misprint like “Moops”! ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2022, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-media-mistakes/975379/97 "2022-11-24T22:33:46Z")
Which is weird because I just watched a Black Sheep Squadron episode where two P-38 aces (loosely based on Richard Bong and McGuire) are attached to the BSS and they’re flying real life P-38s, they’re seeing landing on the runway and flying in formation with the Corsairs, so they had actual acess to P-38s at some point. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2022, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-media-mistakes/975379/98 "2022-11-24T22:35:46Z")
I wonder how many flyable P-38s are left in the world. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2022, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-media-mistakes/975379/99 "2022-11-24T22:49:57Z")
In the crossover episode of **CSI** and **Without a Trace** they showed a photo of Tucson, AZ. It has a PAC 12 university, a big Air Force Base, and a metropolitan population of 900,000 or so. The photo? Some rinky dink town of about 15 houses. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2022, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-media-mistakes/975379/100 "2022-11-24T23:00:23Z")
> [@Asuka](#): > > so they had actual acess to P-38s at some point. Interestingly - they were probably the only to flyable P-38s at the time, and they were different models (if you look close). Always liked that episode, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-media-mistakes/975379.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-media-mistakes/975379.md?page=6)