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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: CC27 on July 08, 2011, 02:05:27 PM
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Peacetrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Jul-08-11 02:25 PM
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If you want to know where the source of a rumor or story starts in all the newspapers. Updated at 1:53 PM
just check where they got their story from. It never ceases to amaze me that suddenly something will blow up from Mr. Anonymous.. and all the newspapers are carrying it.. and it must be written on stone tablets and the TRUTH.
Well the truth is this.. there is very little independent reporting or investigating going on anymore.
Most stories just get picked up through a news service or it is one newspaper parroting another.
Just because you can read the same word for word (dead giveaway) in 12 different newspapers and 20 different blogs does not make it true.
That old chestnut.. you repeat a lie often enough people take it as the truth.
The big papers.. Murdoch comes to mind right away.. are power brokers ..not champions of the truth.
It is up to the individual to feather it out the best they can.
Can you say 24 business hours? I knew you could. :whatever:
MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Jul-08-11 02:38 PM
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4. Yah. FDL is the source of a lot of rumors. Their online pundits
spew whatever happens to come into their heads or is placed there by someone. There's no integrity in many of the writers at FDL. Whatever political position they take can always be supported by "Unnamed Source" or "A Highly Placed White House Official." Both are a freebie. You can use them to say whatever pleases you, then claim journalistic privilege if someone asks you who the source is. It's a bad thing in journalism much of the time
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So happy that a primitive realizes what the AP does to push their political agenda.
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I'll go with AlPravda. AP should be broken into several smaller companies under anti-trust laws.