You said: “I don?t figure on ever getting the full story until a few days has passed...”
Then WHY are you even on a BREAKING NEWS thread in the first place?? Why don’t you spend your time on the “48-hour Old News” threads and leave threads like this alone?
And regarding your statement that unless something has backup, it’s bogus: So if a FReeper is an eye-witness to a murder of 10 people and posts here from his Blackberry while hiding in the attic, you’re going to call him a liar, say he made it up, and that it’s a hoax, and tell the Admin Moderators to delete or lock the thread until YOU can read it on the CBS website, which will be 5 hours later, after the perpetrator has held law enforcement at bay for a few hours and after all of the next of kin of the dead have been notified... But even after YOU “verify” it by seeing it on the CBS website (which will not get the facts right anyway), you will still not apologize to the original poster, right? Of course not. You don’t have it in you.
You said — Then WHY are you even on a BREAKING NEWS thread in the first place?? Why don’t you spend your time on the “48-hour Old News” threads and leave threads like this alone?
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Just because something is posted that is not the full story, or is totally wrong, or is bogus — is no reason for me to *not* be there. But, if it’s not “backed up”, it’s a very good reason to say it’s bogus. The internet is full of bogus stories and just because someone posts something here doesn’t make it reliable, at all. When something is backed up, then it becomes more reliable. The more it’s backed up and the more details which are “delivered” in the next few days, the more reliable it becomes.
Thus *initial* reports contain sometimes no truth, sometimes only a grain of truth, sometimes just a single solitary fact.
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And then you were saying — And regarding your statement that unless something has backup, it’s bogus: So if a FReeper is an eye-witness to a murder of 10 people and posts here from his Blackberry while hiding in the attic, you’re going to call him a liar, say he made it up, and that it’s a hoax, and tell the Admin Moderators to delete or lock the thread until YOU can read it on the CBS website, which will be 5 hours later, after the perpetrator has held law enforcement at bay for a few hours and after all of the next of kin of the dead have been notified...
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You’re assuming some kind of “paranormal knowledge” to be able to even say that, without verification (perhaps you contacted Miss Cleo to discover if it were true... LOL...). If you read a post where someone else does that very thing, and nothing is verified and they later call “hoax” just to show you that it can be done (which it can..., very easily) — you would have *absolutely no way* to know that, at the time it was posted. So, no..., here at Free Republic, it’s necessary to get verification, and that’s by way of other links to the stories. That’s standard practice. You may be gullible, and that’s too bad..., but for standard practice, no..., verification is needed if one wants to make sure something is not a hoax and bogus on Free Republic.
It’s one thing to post opinions and how one may interpret certain theories or hypotheses and so on. Those are not “hoaxes” but interpretations of theories. We’ve got a lot of that, here on Free Republic, too. BUT, when you post *hard news* — which is supposed to be *factual* and you have *no facts*, no links and you supply an old story from the year 2007, then, no..., that’s not factual...
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And then lastly — But even after YOU “verify” it by seeing it on the CBS website (which will not get the facts right anyway), you will still not apologize to the original poster, right? Of course not. You don’t have it in you.
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It’s bogus until such time as it becomes verified. At that time then it’s different. There’s nothing to apologize for, because absent any link (and there was none), along with another story from 2007 being given as “verification” — no, it remains bogus, at that time. And that’s the way it stands...
When something becomes verified, then you evaluate new information. Prior to that, it’s bogus...