This is an oldie from 2018 – but after Time’s fictional story about asthma inhalers choking the planet last week, it’s time to revisit Newsweek’s mega bloopers. Where aircraft travel at twice the speed of light(!) and nearly every fact about the person Austin, Texas is named after is not merely wrong, but impossibly wrong! Almost every fact was incorrect \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Source: Media announces “fact free” reporting initiative \u2013 SocialPanic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Newsweek is a fictional story service that pretends to report on the news<\/a> \u2013 their journalistic and business failures are self inflicted, says Salon<\/a>.<\/p>\n Yet they wonder why people call them \u201cfake news\u201d when their reporters and editors act like bumbling fools with the talent of middle school writers.<\/p>\n The way to respond to accusations of fictional news reporting is to double down on accuracy, objectivity and remaining calm. Unfortunately, the news industry continues to harm itself through self destructive behavior typical of middle school drama. This behavior is bewildering. They make stupid mistakes like this every day. Revisiting an item from 2018, where a news report says a couple lives in an 8-square foot trailer, where aircraft travel at twice the speed of light(!), and almost every fact about the founder of Austin, TX is incorrect. Boggles the mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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