Any News will have an Event preceding it.
Unless the source is checked .only misinformation remains.
Yesterday,I came across a news item that the Supreme Court of India had asked the CBI to find where the 2G Scam money has gone before seeking opposing the bail application of Kanimozhi!
I was about to blog on this when I came across the news that the Court had only mentioned in passing as to where the money has gone.
It is not only non-existent stories but selective, and quoting out of context that has to be checked.
If there are any incorrect information in my blog,please inform me.
Story:
On last Thursday’s visit, cops did come upon the smell of rotten meat (from a broken freezer), and blood on the door (from Bankson’s daughter’s boyfriend, who cut his wrist). They showed up after receiving a tip from a psychic (now under investigation). By that time however, even International news agencies were covering the non-existent story with growing detail including headlines such as, “Dozens of bodies’ found in mass Texas grave,” that were tweeted and retweeted hundreds of time. …
“The way the events unfolded, probably around 3:30 or 3:45 p.m., we received a call from the Liberty County Sheriff’s Department (Public Information Officer) Rex Evans, so it did not start with a tweet with us,” Collura told Garfield. “So I can set the record straight.” Curiously, PIO Evans didn’t mention the cops got their tip from a psychic.
For his part, PIO Evans didn’t seem interested in placing blame … or accepting it. He pretty much just spread it around, letting us all off the hook, or hanging us on it. “I believe not only mainstream media but social media played an integral part in,” the non-news frenzy. Adding that you can’t really pin it on anyone in particular, PIO Evans offered this timely observation: “In social media, nobody stops to verify anything.” Be it Facebook, emails or Twitter, “you can disseminate any information you want. Problem is, people don’t stop and think what they are releasing or putting out there could actually be harmful for someone else.”…
“I thought ‘Medium’ was canceled,” cracked the Los Angeles Times‘ Scott Collins on Twitter Tuesday night as news outlets rushed to retract their breathless headlines about a (non-existent) stack of two dozen dismembered bodies. Just about every media outlet sent a breaking alert out on Twitter, fromThe New York Times, to Breaking News, to the Associated Press. And plenty “confirmed” the story. ABC tweeted, ” ‘Dozens of bodies’ found in mass Texas grave.” Seth Mnookin tweeted the sentiment of many this morning: “Hope “breaking news! dozens of headless bodies on Texas ranch!” was fun for @nytimes, et al, while it lasted.”
The supposed story of bodies, including those of children, rotting in an unattended farmhouse on the outskirts of metropolitan Houston came from a psychic who provided a tip to police. A psychic who is now under investigation. Most outlets got their headlines updated pretty quickly, and by today they’re leading with the fake-out. But Telegraph bloggerBrendan O’Neill caught a Reuters alert, now apparently deleted from the news agency’s site, that confirmed “Texas Authorities Find up to 30 Bodies.” The headline still shows up in a Google search.
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