Philadelphia Is Not Camden, Please

Dan Gross has a nice little piece today about a Diane Sawyer special last night on ABC. Apparently, the program kept saying “outside Philadelphia” and “back in the streets of Philadelphia,” even though all the filming was done in Camden. Whoops!

Gross also gets the requisite non-apology for lying that is standard for television.

“The program described Camden, N.J., as ‘outside Philadelphia’ because, as the closest major city, we felt it would give our national audience a better understanding of the location,” an ABC spokeswoman said yesterday. “At one point during the two-hour program, we did say that we were ‘back in the streets of Philadelphia,’ which was an error that we apologize for.”

I’m going to go watch some Lost episodes from BitTorrent. Oh, sorry, I was just giving my audience a better understanding of how to watch TV shows.

Diane Sawyer tapes Camden hookers, says they’re in Philly [Phillygossip]
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