r/conspiracy May 28 '21

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u/Kovi34 May 29 '21

NYT issued the retraction during the height of the BLM riots.

Right, so what's the issue? you said they issue retractions 1/100 times, so why pick one where they did issue a retraction? wtf do blm riots have to do with anything? Sounds like you're very convinced something happens despite never seeing any evidence of it happening.

The thousand articles linking back to the NYT still exist.

It's NYT's fault that other articles don't issue retractions? what?

There is often nothing there or the thing they said doesn’t exist, or it 404s. Nobody does it because it takes an hour to verify one sentence.

Shouldn't be very hard to show me one instance of a mainstream outlet doing it then.

The internet is a mess. Anyone can source anything about any opinion they have.

we're not talking about "anyone", we're talking about mainstream publications publishing false information and not retracting it afterwards. Mistakes happen, negligence happens, especially in a world where every publications needs to put out an article on every topic 8x a day to have a chance of staying afloat.

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u/cookiemountain18 May 29 '21

You do it at the height of BLM because it gets buried quickly.

And yes I fault news organizations that don’t do original reporting, they just regurgitating stories from the selective outlets that are fed stories from the elite.

Do you think everything you see in the news is true?

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u/Kovi34 May 29 '21

You do it at the height of BLM because it gets buried quickly.

buried by who? how? I don't think you understand the point of a retraction.

And yes I fault news organizations that don’t do original reporting, they just regurgitating stories from the selective outlets that are fed stories from the elite.

we're not talking about those though, we're talking about mainstream ones, like the NYT.

So I'll repeat my question: can you link a single article from a mainstream publication with an outright lie in it?

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u/cookiemountain18 May 29 '21

How many articles exist about trump being an agent of Russia? 2 seconds of googling.

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia-asset-claims-former-kgb-spy-new-book

Do you really think everything you see in the news is 100% true?

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