From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield. This week, the coverage of Hurricane Sandy left several big messes in its way that required later cleanup.

For instance, reports of the death of the Atlantic City boardwalk were, as they say, highly exaggerated.

I see Ginger Zee in Atlantic City with that story. Boy, Ginger, the storm really wiped that away.

We could not even get to that boardwalk as of a couple of hours ago, but we just saw some of the first images.

And let me tell you the boardwalk that you and I have walked and so many others, part of it is gone.

It's a piece of boardwalk, but it's not the boardwalk.

And that piece had been in disrepair, and frankly, Sandy, probably saved the city some money by tossing it into the ocean.

That's John Brennan, who covers sports and gaming for the New Jersey record.

And then apparently CNN in the early evening went with this again, and that really took

it to a whole other level.

So at that point, I posted a blog note saying, let's get the nonsense out of the way.

There is no devastation to the Atlantic City Tourism District near the casinos.

Brennan was mightily frustrated.

I do think the correction and clarification at the very least

would be in order because there's only one section of boardwalk in Atlantic City that people

care about, and that piece is fully intact. A lot of people were misled. Yeah, there was a lot of that

going around in the old media and, of course, in the new media too.

As Hurricane Sandy made its way up the eastern coast of the country,

we saw homes underwater, trees torn from the ground and tunnels flooding.

We also saw massive waves crashing against the Statue of Liberty and sharks swimming through flooded neighborhoods.

But those images were fake.

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