# Silly things you've heard reporters say or ask.

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**Created:** [May 22, 2013, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-things-youve-heard-reporters-say-or-ask/659064 "2013-05-22T20:30:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-things-youve-heard-reporters-say-or-ask/659064/61 "2013-05-28T19:54:22Z")

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Yeah she wasn’t super eager, but I love the fact that she said “I’m an atheist” which normally people avoid saying because the word “atheist” is such a dirty word. She could have said, “Well I’m not really sure if God exists” or “I don’t believe in God” but she actually said on national TV that she was an atheist, so kudos to her 🙂

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**Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-things-youve-heard-reporters-say-or-ask/659064/62 "2013-05-29T01:47:05Z")

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I don’t watch the local news. What am I supposed to do with the information that there was an apartment fire 40 miles from me?

But what really turned me off way back was when the Los Angeles tv news departments decided that a rally with thousands of people in the streets wasn’t worth even mentioning, because it was Sunday. And in Orange County. Screw that drive. And about abortion. So double forget-it.

And I don’t trust them to tell me what’s going on in the first place, now.

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**Author:** ![emcee2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emcee2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emcee2k)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-things-youve-heard-reporters-say-or-ask/659064/63 "2013-05-29T06:03:13Z")

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> [@Morbo](#):
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> Because the Moon has most certainly cooled off?

Yeah, I know. But not everybody does. Actually, “why aren’t they erupting now?” was the only good question in that interview.

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