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"quite routinely"
"As an example, consider the original reporting about Deflategate, our current consensus scandal.
On a factual basis, the original reporting was highly inaccurate. In a new column for Yahoo Sports, Dan Wetzel has noted this fact:"
http://dailyhowler.blogspot.com/2015/05/supplemental-there-was-some-bad.html
malaise
(267,823 posts)K & R
computers being what they are, the link I copied got changed over time
I have not even completely read the Saturday post. (often Somerby does not post on Saturdays, so often I don't check his blog).
Anyway, I wanted to link to this, which I quoted in my OP http://dailyhowler.blogspot.com/2015/05/supplemental-there-was-some-bad.html
It is amazing to me how misinformation flies all over the place, and people sit back and allow it, and nobody seems to be held accountable for having spread it.
malaise
(267,823 posts)Misinformation is a very profitable business.
sendero
(28,552 posts)... "corrected" information means dick-squat to the overall story. 10.9 is still not regulation, they still cheated and deal with it.
The NFL didn't decide to punish this team for the hell of it. They had ALL of the ACTUAL information and they considered it a violation. End of fucking story already.
hfojvt
(37,573 posts)and some people need to deal with that.
According to the NFL's report, the officials ordered all of the Patriots' footballs to be re-inflated to 13 PSI at half time.
In the 2nd half the Patriots outscored the Colts 28-0.
The NFL decided.
Thank goodness nobody ever makes wrong decisions.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)Especially when they start doing the team is advancing for sure thing then report that everyone is shocked, didn't expect to see that happen when I understand probability pretty well.
Overall the American people are fed bad information and many seem to prefer it. I can't tell you how many times they find the lie more convincing than the facts. I can show them a Frontline documentary but they prefer the urban legends & myths more than they believe the truth. I recently was argued bite mark "experts" were phonies, peddling bullshit -- they still tried to argue he knew what he was talking about but got it a little off -- didn't account for the twisting. I show them a picture of the "Snaggletooth killer", they are aware bite mark experts have been wrong but they still talk of the issue as this could have happened and the "bite marks didn't match anyone else in the jail".
I was explaining that forensics from the police really haven't been double checked on scientific studies which led to the huge publication a few years back. Pointing out DNA came from the science community, they turned around and said "I don't trust DNA". I understand it can be staged, planted, or if you have profile manufactured but I have found that many Americans buy the lies more than the truth.
Sorry for the rant but I have ran into similar arguments many times. I only check out & repeat what I know is pretty certain to be true or reported by who.