August 09, 2004
Media Not Candidate Is Mindless
It appears the earlier beheading story wasn't really about getting re-elected, but rather pointing out that the media needs to do better fact checking.
The faked beheading story broadcast on two Arab language television stations and sent out on international news services early Saturday was based on a grainy video that was made by three Bay Area residents as an experiment to find out how quickly erroneous information could be spread by the Internet.The experiment had a delayed reaction, but when it came, it did so more dramatically than the people who made the video ever dreamed.
Posted by Buzz Webster at August 9, 2004 04:13 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
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