A satirical item published last week purporting that economist Paul Krugman had filed for bankruptcy has spread to Boston.com and the conservative website Breitbart this morning.
The item originated in The Daily Currant, a satirical news site. Austria's Format online magazine picked it up, and their report was subsequently cited by Boston.com. Then it spread to Breitbart.
Apparently Breitbart has since taken it down, but other sites have not.
However my favorite part of this story is Krugman's response to it:
Krugman responded to the mix-up this morning, writing on his blog that he knew of the fake news item and was asked about it by a Russian television station. He wrote that he did not address it on his blog because he "wanted to wait and see which right-wing media outlets would fall for the hoax."
Yeah isn't it helpful to have these new conservatives news sites and blogs reporting the information that the "liberal" media is too "in the tank" to report?
I always assume "in the tank" is code for "demonstrates journalistic integrity."
By the way if you think you have heard of this Daily Currant site before, you are right:
The Daily Currant is the same site the Washington Post cited in a false report last month that former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin was joining Al Jazeera.
Well at least Breitbart.com is in good company. Or is it the other way around?
Breitbart.com is very,bad company. I won't visit for fear the slime will attaach to my computer. What a joke the wing-nuts are.
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Andrew Breitbart was a walking slimebucket and we are deeply fortunate to not have his active voice in the media any longer. His right wing yellow journalism rag is on par with WND, Daily Caller and the rest of the fearmongering, anti-Obama, conspiracy pushing websites out there. His media 'legacy' is one that is foul, dishonest and just plain garbage. Breitbart.com is desperately trying to hold him up as if he was some kind of a legitimate journalist. He wasn't, they aren't. All he was was a shit-stirring loudmouth. Breitbart.com is a poor excuse for the written word and with someone like Steven Bannon on the roster, you KNOW it's crap reporting.
ReplyDeleteBreitbart sites have their niche down pat. Their audience wants to hear bad stuff about democrats and any minorities or people of color, whether the information is 10% truthful and the rest of the article is conjecture, bullshit, and spin OR in most instances, a made-up story that those fools either reported without checking sources, or made up the story entirely so the story has sources indeed---themselves.
ReplyDeleteWhat I'm curious to see is if these blunders embarrass the right wing media enough to force them to start employing some actual journalistic practices (like doing research)?
ReplyDeleteOr, will the basic conservative character flaws (total and complete lack of self awareness and utter inability to reflect on or in any way question one's self, beliefs or actions)win out, causing them to fall for this kind of thing again and again.
Since they never print or broadcast retractions or corrections, the people who watch only them never get the truth and never find out that what they've been fed was 100% bullcrap.
DeleteSee...nothing for them to be embarrassed about!
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ReplyDeleteIf you search Boston.com for Krugman, the title of this story does appear, but if you click on it, you get a 404 error, Not Found. So they did take it down.
Being from near Boston, I read Boston.com all the time, and I'm very embarrassed and apologetic that they were stupid enough to mistake a satyrical news site for an actual news site!
Someone has to be the worst of the bunch when it comes to spewing hate-infested bullshit yellow journalism. It might not always be the namesake legacy ole dead Andy created during his hatin' days here on Earth, but anything with his name on it is going to be close in a race to the bottom. It's a real shithouse of stupidity to be avoided.
ReplyDeleteIt's no wonder we're all so confuzzled these days. With bad facts, false facts and even satire that is not so obvious, and so much political crap happening these days, I might soon be counted as one of the low-info voters. I really can't keep up with it all. Even when retracted, it is usually lost in the flood of new crazy news coming out every day.
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I never thought I'd say this, but Breitbart's just as funny dead as he was alive.
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