r/BlackPeopleTwitter ☑️ Sep 05 '24

Country Club Thread DEMAND JUSTICE FOR MASON

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u/Medium_Diver8733 Sep 05 '24 edited Sep 05 '24

Fucking pathetic. Why don’t people sue these news stations into oblivion when they get it wrong time after time? They always rush to be the first with info and constantly screw it up.

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u/SiliconMadness Sep 05 '24

I bet a lot of it is on purpose. They make their comments, put that confusion and hate out there only to generate some quick ad revenue and clicks (If they can denigrate whatever minority in the process, it's a bonus). After they got what they want, they'll claim they "misspoke" which is most often merely a polite for "lie."

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u/Medium_Diver8733 Sep 05 '24

It also leads to a ton of conspiracy theories. Several of the early mistakes with sandy hook led to the big lies people like Alex Jones ran with.

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u/eekamuse Sep 06 '24

Jones didn't need any "mistakes" to do what he did. He made up complete lies out of nothing. All he needed was a lust for money and game. And an evil heart

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u/rokerroker45 Sep 06 '24 edited Sep 06 '24

For what it's worth, they're probably not doing it on purpose, they're just utterly incompetent. Broadcast "news" is awful, but Local TV is some of the worst "journalism" that exists in terms of actual competence.

Half the time they're just repeating whatever a newspaper actually investigated for months, the other half they're just mouthpieces for press releases or cop public information officers.

I bet this is the case of some dumbass TV journo sending unconfirmed misinfo they got thirdhand to the studio and a producer just ran with it because local TV doesn't fact check.