Moderators Moderator_02 Posted July 24, 2017 Moderators Share Posted July 24, 2017 Quote Snake kills 16-year-old girl Posted on July 23, 2017 in Panama Post Views: 320 A 16-YEAR-OLD girl became the year’s first fatal victim of a snake bite on Sunday July 22. The incident happened on a cattle ranch in the Pedasi district of Los Santos province The minor, a native of Bocas del Toro, was bitten on the arms and right leg Officials of the Ministry of Health (Minsa) in Santos said she died although emergency rooms of the region’s hospitals have serum to deal with snake bites. Last year a 69-year-old man, died in the Bajos de Güera, Macaraca district after being bitten. http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/snake-kills-16-year-old-girl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonnie Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 Glaring lack of specifics. But that, along with lack of proofreading and editing, is what I've come to expect from Newsroom Panama. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Woolford Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 32 minutes ago, Bonnie said: Glaring lack of specifics. But that, along with lack of proofreading and editing, is what I've come to expect from Newsroom Panama. Looks like a file photo, no mention of the species. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonnie Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 (edited) Following is one of the comments about the article in Newsroom Panama: Quote "The questions you posted in this instance [“What kind of snake was it? Are they plentiful? Why did the serum not work if it was available?”] are reasonable and should have been addressed. Even worse, the reporter/editor has used a picture of a harmless, non-poisonous species (Pseudoboa neuwiedi, family Colubridae ) in an article about a fatality that had to result from the bite of either a pit-viper or coral snake. Those are in completely different families (Viperidae and Elapidae), neither of which contains a species that resembles the Colubrid snake pictured. Not an example of good reporting!" A subsequent poster noted that posting the picture of the harmless snake in conjunction with the report of a death by snake bite likely will lead to the unnecessary killing of harmless snakes. Edited July 25, 2017 by Admin_01 inserted quoted text formatting 1 1 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Woolford Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 It's hard to believe that someone would actually 'dislike' an informative and important post like this, Bonnie. Goes to show just how skewed some people's minds are. 1 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwoSailors Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brundageba Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 What we have experienced here in Panama is the attitude that all snakes are bad. If it's a snake it needs to be whacked is what we have encountered. So it really doesn't matter to the journalist what snake pic got posted..... Snake?>>>>>>BAD....period 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonnie Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 3 hours ago, Keith Woolford said: It's hard to believe that someone would actually 'dislike' an informative and important post like this, Bonnie. Goes to show just how skewed some people's minds are. Maybe they're registering their dislike of me, Keith, in which case they dislike you too based on their response to your post. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brundageba Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 48 minutes ago, Bonnie said: Maybe they're registering their dislike of me, Keith, in which case they dislike you too based on their response to your post. ? Nah......can't be. Fer sure there are no dislikes from this camp. Alison 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted July 28, 2017 Author Moderators Share Posted July 28, 2017 Quote CORRECTION: Wrong snake blamed Posted on July 27, 2017 in Panama Non poisonous snake Post Views: 191 An observant reader noticed that in a July 23 posting Newsroom used an incorrect photo when reporting a death from a snake bite in a story headlined: “Snake kills 16-year-old girl.” Viper species are found around the world The reader wrote : “Newsroom Panama used a photograph of a harmless, non-poisonous species of snake (Pseudoboa neuwiedi, family Colubridae ) Coral snake, colorful but deadly … Unless the girl’s death was from an over-reaction (e.g., anaphylactic shock) of her own immune system, the bite could not have come from the snake species pictured. It had to have resulted from the bite of either a pit-viper or a coral snake. http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/correction-wrong-snake-blamed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Woolford Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 Actually, the root story in LaPrensa also had the same incorrect photo. 'Garbage in, garbage out.' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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