Media Duped Into Using Fake Quote In Their Rush To Disseminate News Quickly Rather Than Accurately »
Posted By epiphannyy 5 months, 4 weeks ago in NewsWhen Dublin university student Shane Fitzgerald posted a poetic but phony quote on Wikipedia, he said he was testing how our globalized, increasingly Internet-dependent media was upholding accuracy and accountability in an age of instant news.
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"I will tell you, I am a liberal; I am a progressive. But, you know what I really am? I am a "bleeding-heart conservative." Yes ...
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kobzikov5 months, 4 weeks ago
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This story reminds me of Bathtub hoax by HL Mencken.
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Here is a Wikipedia link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_hoax
Be sure to change it around to your liking. :)
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HateKoolAid5 months, 4 weeks ago
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I think we should differentiate between credible news sources being lazy on getting stories factually correct and 'fishy' news items being purposefully put out by biased sources. A good example is an item posted on LiveLeak today. It purports to be about a Missouri woman calling a radio show 'live' and telling about the county sheriff getting ready to forcefully evict her from a home she had proof of owning free and clear. Halfway through this 'live' interview the conversation turns to a condemnation of 'Obama's government' costing jobs and how he's in league with banks throwing innocent people out of their homes. I thought there had to be more about this so I researched and could find nothing about it in any of the Missouri papers or major news outlets, INCLUDING Fox News. The only two sources that had anything about it were a web site called USMessageBoard.com and GCN. Turns out the web site champions anything right wing and GCN was a hardcore conservative radio station. You would be surprised at the number of comments condemning Obama for letting this happen. They blindly excepted this has completely true without researching it.
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