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Chittenden is in Weinland Park which runs the gamut in the name game. The news seems to have been having more stories naming campus when dealing with crime lately. I think it is probably due to OSU starting up soon and an interest to parents who are sending their kids there.
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Frustration with Inaccurate/Misleading Geographic Locations in Media Reporting
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jeff_r
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Walker said:
Looks like they updated it for you. ;)http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2011/09/06/columbus-burglar-dies-near-ohio-state-campus.html
I wonder if my tweeting had anything to do with their increased precision. I even sent them a map. I'm helpful like that :)
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rory
NW Short North
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jeff_r said:
I wonder if my tweeting had anything to do with their increased precision. I even sent them a map. I'm helpful like that :)According to the neighborhood name flowchart this was in Weinland Park since it involved a crime and was north of 11th Avenue but south of the northern alley on Chittenden. If there was a rainbow and elves involved it would be in the University District. South of 11th Avenue if there is crime it's in Weinland Park and if it was something good it's located in the Short North. A gun crime anywhere in the city can usually be pinned on Weinland Park regardless of its actual location. It's complicated and hard for even residents to keep up.
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Rockmastermike
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When I watched the news last night, ch10 identified the area as the campus area, had a big map on the screen saying it was the campus area. The renters of the apartment in question and the random locals they interviewed talking about how all their crap gets stolen all the time all identified as students.
not sure what more you guys want, here. Unless they got brutus buckeye and the OSU marching band in on the story it couldn't be more clearly a story about the OSU "campus area".
I suspect the story was released before it was actually finalized by the news staff or some such and it was later 'fixed' as you mentioned.
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jeff_r
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rory said:
According to the neighborhood name flowchart this was in Weinland Park since it involved a crime and was north of 11th Avenue but south of the northern alley on Chittenden. If there was a rainbow and elves involved it would be in the University District. South of 11th Avenue if there is crime it's in Weinland Park and if it was something good it's located in the Short North. A gun crime anywhere in the city can usually be pinned on Weinland Park regardless of its actual location. It's complicated and hard for even residents to keep up.It wasn't my intention to split hairs over neighborhood boundaries and districts. I was simply going by this map when I suggested Chittenden was in the University District. Obviously by that representation, a lot of Weiland Park is in the University District. I can't vouch for the origin, provenance or accuracy of the map, but it seems reasonable to suggest that Weiland Park is a neighborhood at least partly within the larger University District.
My larger point was that I find it disingenuous (and a little suspicious) when news agencies report on crimes around campus and manage to do it without ever mentioning "campus", "the campus area", "Ohio State" or "the University District". 10TV seems to do this a lot (as I've noted earlier in this thread); opting for the more generic "norht side".
When I'm in a conspiracy theory kind of mood, I attribute this brand of innaccurate reporting to pressure from OSU, who would logically prefer to see crime around the University District under-reported, lest parents think twice about sending their kids there.
That said, I think we both want the same thing, that news outlets report accurately where events ocured without consideration of an area's image, reputation, or political clout.
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jeff_r
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Rockmastermike said:
When I watched the news last night, ch10 identified the area as the campus area, had a big map on the screen saying it was the campus area. The renters of the apartment in question and the random locals they interviewed talking about how all their crap gets stolen all the time all identified as students.not sure what more you guys want, here. Unless they got brutus buckeye and the OSU marching band in on the story it couldn't be more clearly a story about the OSU "campus area".
I suspect the story was released before it was actually finalized by the news staff or some such and it was later 'fixed' as you mentioned.
If that was the first time 10TV had neglected to mention OSU or the campus area when reporting on campus area crime I'd be a lot more forgiving, but it's not (see my previous posts in this very thread).
Plus, the entirity of Chittenden Ave is located in the University District. There's no excuse for calling it "north side", even in an early run.
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Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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Speaking of all this, does anyone happen to remember the URL to the nieghborhood guide that Columbusite made before he moved to Minneapolis?He completely took down his website. Didn't realize he was moving to Minneapolis though. Must have been recent because I was seeing him around almost every week for just about forever...
http://minneapolisite.wordpress.com
Looking forward to following his transformation between being in love with Minneapolis to complaining about everything constantly. ;)
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Rockmastermike
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Walker
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Someone got shot in two areas simultaneously last night: South Columbus (according to NBC4i) and the Near East Side (according to 10TV).
The actual location: http://g.co/maps/xkdpa
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SusanB
Hungarian Village, Columbus' fastest growing Gayborhood!
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Usually every crime south of 70 is "on the South Side". Although the incident Walker is referring to is clearly on the South Side. I just hate it when someone is shot in Galloway or on Sullivant Ave and the news calls it the "South Side".
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BCNation
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Channels 4, 6/28, and 10...
STOP saying the Near East Side if the shooting is on the Southeast Side or in the Linden area. Those are NOT the Near East Side. It's getting. The Near East Side is between, I-71, I-670, Alum Creek, and Livingston (or 70). Get the facts straight.
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