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1. Bookmarking this one several different ways. I may have to send it to a friend.
Wed Nov 6, 2013, 12:36 AM
Nov 2013

Thanks for posting it! There's SO much misinformation and bad or lazy or agenda-driven media coverage. Don't want to call it "reporting" because - the way it's being presented indicates the presenter did NO due diligence, but merely rewrote what they saw on the surface, especially since it could be sensationalized like Pox Noise does. They go for the emotional kill. That overrides whatever anemic "correction" they may run a week later - after the damage is done and the scar tissue has set in. There's the perennial complaint about the blaring headline splattered all over page one above the fold declaring thus 'n' such, which turns out to be wrong and the paper runs a minimal and non-eye-catching correction two-thirds of the way down on page A26.

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