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| Subject: 5 Disturbing Reasons Not to Trust the News (From a Reporter) Fri Feb 21, 2014 9:59 pm | |
| You can spot a press-sourced news article miles away. A cheap and easy way to push coverage into a publication is to commission a survey. You know the type: "New Study Shows Women Most Attracted to Morbidly Obese Men." The great thing about them is that they're a cinch to game until you get the result you want -- that hypothetical example was probably funded by Rascal Scooters and Hot Pockets, then given to the press so they could pick out the key talking points, without going into any detail about how they arrived there. You'll usually find the source in the last paragraph, if at all.
More: http://www.cracked.com/article_20819_5-disturbing-reasons-not-to-trust-news-from-reporter.html |
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