Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Journalistic Lies

Yes, there's lots!

I regretfully have to correct the below post due to the incorrect facts found at either CNN.com or nytimes.com or msnbc.com or npr.com. I can't remember which one, and can't find it in the history, but it's definetly one of them.

I noted that the gunman had only been living in the US for 9 months. Now it is being reported by pretty much everyone that he has been living here since 1992. Living here for 15 years makes a big difference in the argument for hm being a terrorist and threatening national security.

Clearly someone at the website in question decided to make up what they thought was a believable story in hopes that they could scoop everyone else. It's a real sleazeball tactic, but I have noticing it more and more.

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