News sources annoy me so much (1 Viewer)

[Ahsoka]

Read this about the Bush incident in Japan during 1992.

Shortly after the incident, an Idaho man, James Edward Smith, called CNN, posing as the president's physician and claimed Bush had died. A CNN employee entered the information into a centralized computer used by both CNN and its sister network CNN Headline News, and Headline News nearly aired it before it could be verified. Smith was subsequently questioned by the Secret Service and hospitalized at a private mental health facility for evaluation.

Whenever I hear of “journalism” like this is makes me want to slam my head into the table or something. Having small errors, eh, still not good, but ig humans are never perfect. But saying that the president of your country died when they didn’t isn’t very minor. I can’t imagine it’s that hard to verify either.

 

[Moguri]

Its really better to not think about it, a lot of media news are produces in this way and gets published too

 

[dark_tranquility]

I just ignore the news
It's always so negative and tiring to take in.

 

[Selfmate]

and that was 1992 before the rise of all the "fake news" propaganda...

news is merely information and it's up to all of us to critically evaluate such information to determine the veracity

 

[Ahsoka]

and that was 1992 before the rise of all the "fake news" propaganda...

news is merely information and it's up to all of us to critically evaluate such information to determine the veracity

Yeah, though with something like that I feel like it’s harder to evaluate and figure out what’s true and what not when it’s a possible scenario and you have very little information about the situation. The only argument against it would be that a news source said he was okay before and who’s to say that that’s more or less valid than source 2?

 

[Selfmate]

Yeah, though with something like that I feel like it’s harder to evaluate and figure out what’s true and what not when it’s a possible scenario and you have very little information about the situation. The only argument against it would be that a news source said he was okay before and who’s to say that that’s more or less valid than source 2?

that's why we should take everything with a grain of salt and double/triple check our sources to make sure nothing slips through the cracks...
obviously it's not always possible ...eternal vigilance is the price of freedom

 

[ichigohon]

Did he die before or after he vomited on the Japanese prime minister

 

[MK3AM]

and that was 1992 before the rise of all the "fake news" propaganda...

news is merely information and it's up to all of us to critically evaluate such information to determine the veracity

we learned abt it in history class lol

 

[Selfmate]

we learned abt it in history class lol

good for you my friend
those who forget history are doomed to repeat it

 

[Myth]

yikes…


imagine tho, watching the news and hearing you ”died” lol. that would be wild…

 

[Ahsoka]

Did he die before or after he vomited on the Japanese prime minister

After

 

[Moguri]

yikes…


imagine tho, watching the news and hearing you ”died” lol. that would be wild…

also imagine your poor family and friends also learning this from the news