30th April 2007, 11:53 PM
And here I'd waited to verify it with other reports before posting it here.
This just goes to show I need to be even more skeptical of major news outlets.
With the specifics given, this goes beyond hyperbole to outright lie. Then again, when the news started thinking it was okay to "exxagerate a bit" for ratings and stopped being boring, that was probably the end anyway. This is the next logical extension.
News is SUPPOSED to be boring!
This just goes to show I need to be even more skeptical of major news outlets.
With the specifics given, this goes beyond hyperbole to outright lie. Then again, when the news started thinking it was okay to "exxagerate a bit" for ratings and stopped being boring, that was probably the end anyway. This is the next logical extension.
News is SUPPOSED to be boring!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)