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still_one

(98,883 posts)
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 05:44 PM Oct 2017

The media is really inept. Their half-assed lazy reporting on Tom Petty isn't the first time they [View all]

have done this. In fact, it is way too frequent.

They did the same thing with Gabrielle Giffords

In 2006 they incorrectly reported that 12 miners were alive in a West Virginia mine collapse. They were wrong

Just before the SC decision on the ACA, major media outlets reported that the SC ruled it unconstitutional. They were wrong.

When Comey released the letter to the republicans in Congress, the press reported that the "email investigation was being reopened". That was a lie.

When Bret Baier reported that an indictment was pending against the Clinton Foundation. That was a lie.

There are stories now circulating through the NYTimes, that the killer in Las Vegas "just converted to Islam". As far as I am aware there is no verification.

Enough is enough. We invaded a country where over a million people were killed, based on a LIE propagated by the news media, because most of them were too lazy to actually find out what was happening.


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Blame it on Fox Angry Dragon Oct 2017 #1
It isn't just fox still_one Oct 2017 #2
sure it is Angry Dragon Oct 2017 #3
Then obviously you didn't read the NYTimes when we invaded Iraq, or CNN when they misreported about still_one Oct 2017 #6
the wealthy control the news Angry Dragon Oct 2017 #10
True, but that by itself isn't necessarily good or bad. It is when their profit motive, and other still_one Oct 2017 #15
yes we are ............ a good day to you Angry Dragon Oct 2017 #28
This. MontanaMama Oct 2017 #4
"These fools are doing it to themselves", excellent point. We arthritisR_US Oct 2017 #17
Maybe we need an ongoing gofundme account set up Volaris Oct 2017 #24
Democracy Now. Free Speech TV MontanaMama Oct 2017 #27
CBS relied on information provided by the LAPD. LAPD has apologized onenote Oct 2017 #5
There was a time when two reliable sources were needed for confirmation. This happens all too still_one Oct 2017 #7
Precisely, their desire for low hanging fruit is our demise. arthritisR_US Oct 2017 #20
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ still_one Oct 2017 #21
He gambled. He drank liquor. He lived with a women he wasn't married to and presumably slept politicaljunkie41910 Oct 2017 #8
I agree. still_one Oct 2017 #9
Tom Petty? kwassa Oct 2017 #11
In defense of the media, it looks like it was PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2017 #12
Shit happens... Baconator Oct 2017 #13
But, I've been assured here on DU that TMZ never gets it wrong!!! Coventina Oct 2017 #14
My bad still_one Oct 2017 #18
In your defense, I wasn't referring to you. Coventina Oct 2017 #22
.............................................................................................. still_one Oct 2017 #23
Tape this to your computer and you'll never be disappointed. WhiskeyGrinder Oct 2017 #16
wow. Thank-you, that says it all still_one Oct 2017 #19
Three more: "KAL 007 landed safely on Sakhalin Is." "The Israeli athletes are alive." WinkyDink Oct 2017 #25
The list goes on for a while. Dan Rather was setup by Rove, but still, if his staff had been more still_one Oct 2017 #26
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