Media news - a bunch of parrots
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| Sat, 07-24-2004 - 9:08am |
You should find this interesting. By now you've all read or heard that Sandy Berger is alledged to have stuffed documents into his clothing to smuggle them out of the archives. At this point it's an accusation by only one source and there is no real evidence at this point, but the news media has picked it up and from that one source it's being spread around everywhere as if it's a proven fact.
To actually see the parrots at work, go to google and type in berger stuffed socks, then scan down the hits. By the second page you will see the same phase over and over and over.
I guess it's too much trouble to check sources and write original stories. Instead they take whatever the Whitehouse dishes out and repeat it so many times that people scanning the headlines begin to believe it.

Elaine
I often notice this "parroting". You wouldn't want a 'journalist' to lose favour with the White House, would you? ;)
AP or Reuters will have an article & the duplicate will be on a dozen other news sites.
How many news services actually have worldwide
Wow, when will this take to the web as the truth? I must it is a better story than the real one. Ha Ha--Sob