Looking at the top google hits and previous stories on your subject[0] seems like the bare minimum fact checking to do?
> And the collars didn’t necessarily work either. They were shipped, not installed/tested. So the problem doesn’t seem to have been solved.
Seems pretty logical that they'd have to be refined given they're made and shipped from china with no access to the iron lung or ability to travel back and forth personally. That's something the NPR journo could actually have assisted with.
[0] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/iron-lung-maker-community
That's not the job of the journalist! Are we to expect our journalists to solve the problems they report on? Should every story also turn the journalist into an advocate - be it legal, healthcare, employment, etc. - that works on their behalf?
I think there's room for critique here though the "assumption of bad faith" runs rampant in this discourse already. Yet critiquing the reporter for not acting as their personal local news network "Problem Solvers" segment isn't the real issue here.
Are you sure about that? Look at the pinned comment on the original video from 2 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VKZTmTP7oY
How do you fact check whether someone can find something?
Their inability to find something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. It just means that she personally can’t find them.
And the collars didn’t necessarily work either. They were shipped, not installed/tested. So the problem doesn’t seem to have been solved.