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WaPo outs woman who it says faked Roy Moore story

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by jlee, Nov 27, 2017.

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  1. dirtybird

    dirtybird Well-Known Member

    Fucking capitalism!
     
    dirtybird, Nov 27, 2017
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  2. SnarkShark

    SnarkShark Well-Known Member

    The horror!
     
    SnarkShark, Nov 28, 2017
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  3. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    Why didn't O'Keefe wise up after he pleaded guilty to wiretapping Sen. Landreiu, realize what he was doing was wrong and find another line of work. That's what I would have done.

    It's almost as if he didn't learn anything from that.

    They should have given him jail time.
     
    Smallpotatoes, Nov 28, 2017
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  4. Tweener

    Tweener Well-Known Member

    Why didn't he? Come on, man. You know this is all about money.

    These guys don't believe what they're doing is wrong, or they don't care because the money is too good.
     
    Tweener, Nov 28, 2017
    #16
  5. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    All the more reason they should have made an example of him and thrown him in jail.
     
    Smallpotatoes, Nov 28, 2017
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  6. matt_garth

    matt_garth Well-Known Member

    matt_garth, Nov 28, 2017
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  7. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    I guess I'm surprised how many unsophisticated amateurish news operations on the right are funded by well-heeled donors. I get it, just because you are a billionaire like a Koch or a Mercer doesn't mean you can't be a conspiracy nut as well. But it doesn't (or wouldn't) take much to establish a news site that doesn't troll, hype nationalism, and actually gets stories that make those to the left look bad correct and have real impact.
    Instead these pooh-throwing sites continue to only enforce the validity and need for professional journalism.
     
    DanOregon, Nov 28, 2017
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  8. LanceyHoward

    LanceyHoward Well-Known Member

    Allow me to offer a plug for the Washington Post. Yesterday when I called up the story on-line the Post was offering subscriptions for $3.99 a month. I subscribe to the Post and the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. While I don't think the Post's national efforts are as comprehensive as the New York Times the monthly subscription to the latter is about $20 a month. The Post also has a sports section that I find more interesting than the Times because they try to cover the major sports rather than devote their efforts to space to sports like tennis and soccer. For four bucks a month I am unaware of any outlet, conservative or liberal, that offers as much as the Post.
     
    LanceyHoward, Nov 28, 2017
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  9. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    It's the best deal of the big papers. Because Alice's main interest is the arts, we get the Times too, because they can't be beat for that. We get the Journal because I like reading business stories.
     
    Michael_ Gee, Nov 28, 2017
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  10. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    I don't have a problem with a psuedo-journalist like O'Keefe trying to dupe the Washington Post. I also applaud the Washington Post for doing its due diligence and then blowing him up and making him looking like a fool. Marty Baron is a throwback and has put together something really good and really valuable there in the current age of half truths and outright BS we are stuck living with.

    The sooner the whole "fake news" thing dies a horrible death, the better, as far as I am concerned. What the Russians were doing on Facebook was fake news, OK. Then (predictably in hindsight) the term got hijacked to simply mean "any story I don't like." Good news organizations, like the WaPo, try to corroborate info independently. They aren't mistake proof. ... but nobody is. Woodward and Bernstein committed near critical mistakes in their reporting on Watergate. People like O'Keefe want to muddy the waters, in order to try to do a wholesale job of discrediting the people speaking truth to power. Fine. That means that the reporters at the Post, Times, etc. need to be more vigilant and stay focused on trying to get things right. That isn't a bad thing.
     
    The Big Ragu, Nov 28, 2017
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  11. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    Ragu, when Hamilton edited Washington's farewell address, he deleted a section in which Washington denounced fake news and newspapers in general.
     
    Michael_ Gee, Nov 28, 2017
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  12. SpeedTchr

    SpeedTchr Well-Known Member

    The Post also has a comics section, unlike the NYT.
     
    SpeedTchr, Nov 28, 2017
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