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Browne wrong again: Terrence Farrell

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TERRORIST ATTACKS / Marrow Donor ' Moved Mountains'
Elizabeth Moore. STAFF WRITER.
Newsday. Long Island, N.Y.: Sep 16, 2001. pg. W.21

On a late summer day in 1994, Queens rescue firefighter Terrence Farrell had lunch with a 6-year-old girl in a frilly white dress on the 87th floor of the World Trade Center, to celebrate the life he had given her.

Bone marrow donated by Farrell had been used to cure the blood cancer that was killing Chantyl Peterson. She had flown in with her family from Nevada to give him flowers and kisses. She rode his fire truck and enjoyed a picnic with the Dix Hills Fire Department, where Farrell, a Huntington resident, also serves as an assistant chief. She called him "my Mr. Nice Man." He called her his "daughter by proxy," and got a little choked up.

So this week, when Chantyl's mother saw the Twin Towers collapse on CNN and found out Terry Farrell was missing, "I just wanted to get in my van and go to New York and start looking for him," Sheri Peterson said from their home in Henderson, near Las Vegas.
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Chantyl's mom has done one other thing she thought might help: On Thursday she consulted celebrity psychic Sylvia Brown by telephone to ask about Farrell's fate. Chantyl stayed home from school to listen in.

"She told me that Terry was still alive," Sheri Peterson said, and that he would be found in a couple of days. "She darn well better be right."
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Source: Newsday Archive

According to that article, Browne was consulted by phone. I wonder if that means a $700.00 phone call?

Sadly, Browne was wrong. Terrence Farrell died in the World Trade Center September 11, 2001.
 
Yes, but Terrence Farrell is alive in our hearts.

That'll be $700, please.

Michael
 
How many times can that women get things blatantly wrong like that and still get business???? Could Sheri Peterson sue Sylvia for emotional distress or something????
 
Here's another mention of Terrence Farrell:

Children's idea builds on how blood from N.Y. firefighters helped in IDs
Thursday, September 11, 2003
By Anita Srikameswaran, Post-Gazette Staff Writer
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According to the Minneapolis-based National Marrow Donor Program, almost 9,000 New York firefighters are in the registry. Over the years, 50 of them have donated.

One of them was Terrence Farrell, whose bone marrow was needed to treat a Las Vegas girl who had lymphoma. He died in the collapse of the towers.
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Source: Post-Gazette
 
Thanks for finding this, QG. It will go on the site.

It's too bad we only have the girl's mother's word on what Browne said though.
 
You have a major paper's article about it.

Journalists are obligated to check their facts on pain of never working again. No matter how benign the misinformation might be, trust is the only currency papers have with their readers.
 
RSLancastr said:
Thanks for finding this, QG. It will go on the site.

It's too bad we only have the girl's mother's word on what Browne said though.
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Yes, but on the other hand she's quoted only 5 days after the attack, which means she made the statement no later than saturday 9/15, 2 days after she spoke with Browne.
 
Like I said, a major paper wouldn't print something like that if they had any reason to think it untrue.
 
EeneyMinnieMoe said:
You have a major paper's article about it.

Journalists are obligated to check their facts on pain of never working again. No matter how benign the misinformation might be, trust is the only currency papers have with their readers.
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Is this a joke? I mean wow! I would almost believe in psychic powers before I did the integrity of journalist or the media in general.
That's the same thing as saying: It's on TV so it must be true. They can't put things on TV that arn't true.
 
No it's not. Journalists and media outlets have a code of ethics that they follow very strictly lest they never work again.

Dan Rather was pretty much fired from a job he had longer than most of us were born for not checking his facts once.
 
EeneyMinnieMoe said:
Like I said, a major paper wouldn't print something like that if they had any reason to think it untrue.
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Are you saying that you think the reporter would have called up Browne to confirm that she had said that the firefighter was alive?

What I would like to know is, how did the woman talk to Browne? There is a waiting list. The length of it is in dispute, but there is a list.

For this woman to have heard about the firefighter being missing from 9/11, and to have spoken to Browne about it in time for it to make a paper on 9/15, she would have either had to have made an appointment long before, or Browne would have had to make an exception in this woman's case and allow her to circumvent the waiting list.
 
Here's one from the LA Times:

Firefighter Survives in Girl Who Received Bone Marrow;
Altruism: New Yorker's decision to donate saved a Nevada child. Nine years later, he died at the World Trade Center.

Los Angeles Times
04/21/2002
From Associated Press

Chantyl Peterson bursts through the front door, greets her mother and slings her schoolbooks onto the floor. She's a healthy seventh-grader who loves horseback riding and playing the flute and doesn't mind homework.
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Doctors told her family that Chantyl had a 1 in 20,000 chance of finding a match.
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Chantyl was in her bedroom but heard her mother on the telephone.

"She came out of the room and said, 'Is Terry in trouble? Does he need my help? Do I need to give him some blood?' "

"I told her we really need to pray for him," her mother replied.

Farrell's body was found Oct. 25 in the rubble of the trade center's south tower.

The Peterson family flew to New York a third time, this time to say goodbye. Chantyl recited part of the closing prayer at the funeral.

A New York-based donor program organized by a fellow firefighter will be re-christened to include Farrell's name.
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Source: Fallenbrothers.com or LA Times Archive

Here is another link to the OP article that mentions Browne.
 
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RSLancastr said:
Are you saying that you think the reporter would have called up Browne to confirm that she had said that the firefighter was alive?

What I would like to know is, how did the woman talk to Browne? There is a waiting list. The length of it is in dispute, but there is a list.

For this woman to have heard about the firefighter being missing from 9/11, and to have spoken to Browne about it in time for it to make a paper on 9/15, she would have either had to have made an appointment long before, or Browne would have had to make an exception in this woman's case and allow her to circumvent the waiting list.
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I think I found Sheri's contact information, if you want it.
 
EeneyMinnieMoe said:
No it's not. Journalists and media outlets have a code of ethics that they follow very strictly lest they never work again.

Dan Rather was pretty much fired from a job he had longer than most of us were born for not checking his facts once.
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That is so not true! What happened to Dan Rather had less to do with his fact checking and more to do with the story content.
If the story content had not gone up against the powers that be then no one would of cared what or who his source was or weather his source was truthful or not.
The media in all it's forms broadcast, print or report half truths and flat out lies every day.
Most papers have their own left or right slant on things. That's why you can read about the same incident in different papers and get a different story every time.
 
EeneyMinnieMoe said:
Journalists are obligated to check their facts on pain of never working again. No matter how benign the misinformation might be, trust is the only currency papers have with their readers.
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I'm sorry EMM, but trust is not so important as entertainment. The Fourth Estate runs on a thing called Situational Ethics. If a story will sell papers, that's great! If an article sells papers, but offends a major advertiser who then threatens to pull it's sponsorship, the paper is likely to tone down it's rhetoric. If a story offends some Really Powerful People, then a paper is likely to drop the story entirely.

The same goes for broadcast journalism; thus the "Dan Rather vs. the Whitehouse" incident. Guess who won that battle?

The best bet is to draw from several independent news sources, and then draw your own conclusions. Tune in to VOA, the BBC, and even Radio Moscow and Radio Peking for a wider range of views on the same story, and then make an informed choice as to what the truth is.
 
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