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I saw the story on several sites, and frankly, had no problem believing that Bachmann said what the articles credited to her. She has said and done some of the most simple minded things anyone in public life has. We’ll just wait for her next real life issue, and I feel sure it will top this.
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Um, saying that DailyKos got duped, is rather specious.
There are like 1.2 million members there. All with the ability to write a diary (story).
One diarist got duped, along with perhaps 30 other people.
Wow. That’s almost a teabagger protest gathering.
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Evidently, on-line journalism doesn’t stick to the simplest old rule of journalism that used to exist in other media: get TWO (2) sources to verify the news item before publication.
Think Progress, as well as Daily Kos and Crooks and Liars: perhaps you could hire some real journalists to fact-check and verify before rushing to publish?
Daily Kos is a community blog. Anyone can create an account and start posting, after which they gain or lose credibility by the quality of their posts. This person has posted just a few times, and isn’t one of the staff whose posts go on the frontpage.
I’m not familiar with Crooks and Liars, but Think Progress should have known better.
Satire is supposed to be exaggerated, not just making up something. It would have looked plausible to me too. The only clue was that the site linked to as Minnesota Public radio is a conservative talk station, but if you don’t know Minnesota or Kansas City media, there are no red flags. I guess we need to learn to hear the audio or hunt down the original article before believing.
Funny, but sad, that the story about Bachmann was so easy to believe.
I think it was the National Report that ran a story that georgebush voted for obama in his Texas polling place in 2012, realized he’d made a mistake, asked for a do-over and couldn’t get it. I fell for it because georgebush.
That was the Daily Currant (I remember because their editor/writer/whatever was relentlessly spamming the TPM comments to promote them at the time), which does the same kind of non-funny “satire”.
Yes it was the Daily Currant, thanks for the reminder. I tried to pass it on to a local reporter here in SF and they didn’t run it. The did the fact checking that I didn’t.
They duped themselves. The Bias Bug bites again!