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Putting out Misinformation ?
Posted on 9/20/11 at 3:26 pm
Posted on 9/20/11 at 3:26 pm
Hoping someone can clear this up for me.
Question on the misinformation that is printed in Newspapers and the likes that is false (or rumored to be false), ie Mizzou getting the invite, Texas making multiple claims through Chip Brown, etc.
Do the journalist that put this out there for schools not have to answer to who they work for? How can they get away with being a puppet for the universities? Or do the universities just lie to them and they print it, and thus it is okay because they are just reporting what is being told to them.
Just seems to me that there would be some recourse for putting false information out there from those who work for a credible source like the St. Louis paper today. Did the author not check with the SEC before printing his story? I want information on this just as much as the next guy, but I get fed up with all of the false information and reporting out there. Sorry for the rant.
Question on the misinformation that is printed in Newspapers and the likes that is false (or rumored to be false), ie Mizzou getting the invite, Texas making multiple claims through Chip Brown, etc.
Do the journalist that put this out there for schools not have to answer to who they work for? How can they get away with being a puppet for the universities? Or do the universities just lie to them and they print it, and thus it is okay because they are just reporting what is being told to them.
Just seems to me that there would be some recourse for putting false information out there from those who work for a credible source like the St. Louis paper today. Did the author not check with the SEC before printing his story? I want information on this just as much as the next guy, but I get fed up with all of the false information and reporting out there. Sorry for the rant.
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Posted on 9/20/11 at 3:29 pm to Lion Monticello
Have you thought about the folks they work for perhaps welcoming such information? For example, that the KCStar editor that oversees the writer who tweeted about the SEC "offer" might have an agenda to get MU into the B1G or wherever else other than into the SEC?
Posted on 9/20/11 at 3:29 pm to Lion Monticello
Think about it this way.
There is information overload now-a-days from twitter/blogs ect. 1 Person can quote something from someone else and it gets picked up by the mainstream media without fact finding.
(Better to be first and wrong than last approach)
There is information overload now-a-days from twitter/blogs ect. 1 Person can quote something from someone else and it gets picked up by the mainstream media without fact finding.
(Better to be first and wrong than last approach)
Posted on 9/20/11 at 3:36 pm to SportzBlogger1
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Have you thought about the folks they work for perhaps welcoming such information? For example, that the KCStar editor that oversees the writer who tweeted about the SEC "offer" might have an agenda to get MU into the B1G or wherever else other than into the SEC?
Yea, but isnt his responsibility to keeping the newspaper as a credible source. He is getting paid by the KCStar, not the school and should not be printing personal agendas in a newspaper.
The KCStar is a business and the best business for a newspaper is to be a credible source of information.
Posted on 9/20/11 at 3:38 pm to Lion Monticello
quote:With twitter it is a new day. Lies, damned lies and statistics, true or false, can go viral.
Hoping someone can clear this up for me.
This post was edited on 9/20/11 at 3:40 pm
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