I don't mean any offense to any journalists about, but my experience is that every situation in which I was personally involved and had personal knowledge of the facts, and a news story was written, I have always found one or two factual mistakes in the news story. It may just really be difficult to get down all of the facts in a way that you can recall later, and journalists may just be in too much of a hurry. Hard to say.
In this particular case, the actual quotes seem to indicate that he isn't undecided, so I think the descriptive text that suggests that he is (more or less) is just wrong. Or was written before the quotes were collected -- it's not uncommon these days for stories to get posted online, and then revised online. I've seen cases before in which the new material added during the revision contradicts some of the existing material -- just a sloppy editing job.
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Date: 2012-10-18 09:07 pm (UTC)In this particular case, the actual quotes seem to indicate that he isn't undecided, so I think the descriptive text that suggests that he is (more or less) is just wrong. Or was written before the quotes were collected -- it's not uncommon these days for stories to get posted online, and then revised online. I've seen cases before in which the new material added during the revision contradicts some of the existing material -- just a sloppy editing job.