the fastest way to bad information

MaTH716 · #1 04-23-2013, 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by hi_im_god

http://www.theatlantic.com/technolog...ors_picks=true

the internet is a fantastic tool for the dissemination of information.

good, bad, and just made up.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe...ticle11501467/

bigrun · #2 04-23-2013, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by MaTH716

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe...ticle11501467/

Got an email from a friend on above story...somebody make some

Did you hear about A/P getting hacked ? Someone sent out a tweet from the Associated Press this afternoon saying that the White House had two explosions in it and Obama was injured. The stock market went from being +135 to negative 143. Then the A/P announced it has been hacked and the stock market went back up. Some people made billions on that fake tweet.

Danzig · #3 04-23-2013, 05:24 PM

not just the internet. with so many news agencies trying to be 'first' there's too many mis-steps. witness john king, cnn and their mess the other day, announcing an arrest-and then having to backtrack.
and how is wolf blitzer still employed? and susan candiotti--did she really not have time to come up with a better phrase to describe the ghost town that was boston friday? did she really think 'it looks like a bomb had been dropped' was a good way to put it?

bigrun · #4 04-23-2013, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Danzig

not just the internet. with so many news agencies trying to be 'first' there's too many mis-steps. witness john king, cnn and their mess the other day, announcing an arrest-and then having to backtrack.
and how is wolf blitzer still employed? and susan candiotti--did she really not have time to come up with a better phrase to describe the ghost town that was boston friday? did she really think 'it looks like a bomb had been dropped' was a good way to put it?

Stewart was all over CNN for all their goofs...that bomb line all time goof..

dellinger63 · #5 04-23-2013, 07:23 PM

Tried to sell Stewart, "That last aborted baby to swim out of the toilet was Ryan Lochte. Ever since then they've kept the toilet seats down" Maybe I should have used philly or Obama in the joke?

Danzig · #6 04-24-2013, 09:27 AM

just read that charges have been dropped against the guy charged with mailing the ricin letters. someone else is being investigated-possibly mailed them and made it look like the first guy did it.
oh, and i wonder how the elvis impersonator is going to handle his family going on record about his mental issues? nothing like your own relatives kicking you while you're down.
and, once again, shows why we must assume innocent til PROVEN guilty. charges aren't proof.

cal828 · #7 04-27-2013, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Danzig

just read that charges have been dropped against the guy charged with mailing the ricin letters. someone else is being investigated-possibly mailed them and made it look like the first guy did it.
oh, and i wonder how the elvis impersonator is going to handle his family going on record about his mental issues? nothing like your own relatives kicking you while you're down.
and, once again, shows why we must assume innocent til PROVEN guilty. charges aren't proof.

Looks like they arrested the other guy. I didn't think the Elvis impersonator was the perpetrator of the letters. He seemed too dumb. Said he never ate rice.