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Ant
02-02-2005, 03:02 AM
http://apnews.myway.com/image/20050201/IRA...docid=D87VU1582 (http://apnews.myway.com/image/20050201/IRAQ_SOLDIER.sff_LON128_20050201125054.html?date=2 0050201&docid=D87VU1582)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...ea/iraq_soldier (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=8&u=/ap/20050201/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_soldier)

How can a media outlet want a story so bad that they have to resort to sheer stupidity and asinine tactics to make "news"?

And, if you don't click on the second link, the picture in the first is a G.I. Joe... it's obviously fake, just look at the second article. How did they not see that when verifying the news?
NofxPants
02-02-2005, 03:04 AM
That is stupid.
Jon[athan]
02-02-2005, 03:05 AM
wow. they need to have limits to how stupid the press can be.
Kate
02-02-2005, 03:28 AM
Originally posted by .vicious.cycle.of.life.@Feb 1 2005, 10:23 PM
wow. they need to have limits to how stupid the press can be.
Actually, no. The press only has to avoid publishing direct lies about an individual, stupidity is protected under the First Amendment.
Tomi
02-02-2005, 05:08 AM
I actually just read about this.

That picture looks so fake, when I first saw it I knew immediately it was a doll.
F-ck Casey
02-02-2005, 09:23 PM
The press/newspapers used to do this back in the old days, like 1900 and whatnot.

A newspaper owner virtually made up a Cuban war in, well, Cuba. He sent one of his photographers down to Cuba to take pictures of it, and when the guy got there, saw there was no war (everything was peaceful), and called (not really called, but whatever they did back then. telegraph?) his boss and told him that, and his boss said, "You take the pictures, I'll supply the war".

So, it's not that far-fetched. It's happen before, and it was more widespread in the 1900s since they didn't have CNN and the like. You know, because back then, the newspaper was America's only source of news and information.
lpsk8er
02-02-2005, 11:03 PM
I agree, that is stupid.
TeMpEsT
02-03-2005, 03:28 AM
Pfft, that G.I. Joe is top dollar down there. Worth an arm, a leg, and half of a testicle in Iraqi currency.
Ryan
02-03-2005, 05:53 AM
Originally posted by TeMpEsT@Feb 2 2005, 09:46 PM
Pfft, that G.I. Joe is top dollar down there. Worth an arm, a leg, and half of a testicle in Iraqi currency.
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