I go to bed last night and the news is reporting that one miner is dead with the fate of the others unknown.
I wake up and I hear that all miners except for one is dead. Then I hear a woman saying that orginally, they were all lived except for one and that they found out the truth hours later. This woman is now saying she's going to sue someone.
WTF?!?!?!?!??!?!
Your "loved one" has just been confirmed to have been killed in a mine accident and the first thing you think of is to sue someone?
Then I get home and my wife is livid because it's being reported that they were all in church praying when an "outsider" came in and said they were all alive except for one person. The people in the church start cheering. Then the pastor of the church asks people to pray for the family of the dead person, and very few people came up to pray for that family. The, later....
Right now I'm doing something dangerous, and that's writing when I don't have all of the facts. That's the blame being put on the media by the standard media critics, but I have to say if a rumor that the people are alive is going around, it's not a surprise that the media will report it, especially in this age of media competition. But they should have tried to fact check.
The media screwed up.
In the Baltimore area, a columnist for The Baltimore Sun resigned because "he had used sentences and paragraphs from other newspapers in some of his columns without attribution."
So another white newspaper person resigns because of suspect reporting/sourcing. What does this say about white newspaper writers?
I guess affirmative action is to blame.
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