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IronLionZion

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14. CNN is not inspiring a lot of confidence if they don't catch typos

Reply to MelissaB (Original post)

Sun May 10, 2020, 12:34 AM

May 2020

how can they catch legit mistakes in how they investigate, analyze, and report news?

They fixed the air/err issue now but still it looks like too many news outlets rush to publish without much QA.

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CNN is not inspiring a lot of confidence if they don't catch typos IronLionZion May 2020 #14