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3. Modern journalism?

Reply to ManiacJoe (Reply #2)

Sun Jun 15, 2014, 08:31 AM

Jun 2014

What do you want the journalist to do, speculate on causes and what should happen to those responsible?
That's not journalism, modern or otherwise. The writer has the basic facts, with a much higher likelihood of them being accurate, and that's better than the BS rumormill on Facebook that is probably sweeping through that community at this time.

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