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3. Post hoc ergo propter hoc

Tue Jun 21, 2016, 09:04 PM

Jun 2016

This isn't about Ralston's coverage of the convention.

It's payback for Ralston taking on Sheldon Adelson, a major PBS donor. Adelson doesn't want him on the airwaves, and poof! he's gone.

But go ahead and celebrate the fact that a seasoned investigative reporter who writes about corruption on both sides of the aisle lost his TV show because he pissed off a powerful, right-wing billionaire who is buying up media outlets so he can control what you read in newspapers.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/04/ralston-las-vegas-sun-editor-pulled-column-to-protect-reid-204868

https://www.ralstonreports.com/blog/where-does-harry-reid-draw-line-my-column-about-reid-and-his-mitt-romney-tax-attack-was-killed

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/03/business/media/sheldon-adelsonspurchase-of-las-vegas-paper-seen-as-a-power-play.html?_r=0

https://www.ralstonreports.com/blog/editor-columnist-cant-write-about-adelson-adelson-news

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Fuck him gopiscrap Jun 2016 #1

yep +100 840high Jun 2016 #2

Post hoc ergo propter hoc lapucelle Jun 2016 #3

If he was a seasoned investigative journalist worth his salt passiveporcupine Jun 2016 #5

He didn't run with it he tweeted it Egnever Jun 2016 #8

And he continued to back that lie for two days. kiva Jun 2016 #11

I doubt it is vastly reduced Egnever Jun 2016 #15

I've lived in Nevada for 19 years. kiva Jun 2016 #16

No, I think he's a regional reporter kiva Jun 2016 #18

Well said laserhaas Jun 2016 #19

He has been on for breaking news plenty of times. Egnever Jun 2016 #20

So what's your explanation about why he lied? kiva Jun 2016 #21

Maybe he trusted his source? Egnever Jun 2016 #22

I can understand him making the tweet kiva Jun 2016 #23

Here he is the day after saying he didn't see it happen Egnever Jun 2016 #24

This is from Tuesday, May 17, kiva Jun 2016 #25

His tweet was on the 15th Egnever Jun 2016 #26

The morning after he kiva Jun 2016 #27

Sadly OwlinAZ Jun 2016 #13

+1000000000000 jack_krass Jun 2016 #14

Couldn't have happened to a "better"? man. Duval Jun 2016 #4

yep. tenderfoot Jun 2016 #9