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LongtimeAZDem

(4,494 posts)
Thu Feb 21, 2019, 06:58 PM Feb 2019

If we don't want to see excessive coverage of things like the Smollett case [View all]

then, in the future, we need to stop jumping on every sensational story before the facts are in.

When we go from zero to full outrage every time, the media is going to respond, because it is a business, and sensation sells. When it turns out that a story is bogus, it pays them double or more, because they get to cover the coverage.

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