I have no doubt that you are correct.
My issue is not whether the Methodist Leadership are good guys or bad guys in this.
My issue is that FreeRepublic cannot afford to have itself used
as a vehicle for shabby journalistic practices.
With the frontal attack on Conservative media in all its forms in full force right now
having amateur "bloggers" post their hear-say phone conversations as if they were
real reporting of factual events is a bridge too far.
If we let stuff like this go unchallenged we'll soon see FreeRepublic completely blacklisted on all the search engines.
Then we can kiss that precious Alexa rating goodbye.
Next down the drain will be any effective activism that is our stated goal.
In fact I have noticed that searching unique character strings found on FR
does not yield the instant top of the page results it did just a few months ago.
(Of course I'm not going to start a thread about it, because unlike the OP on this thread
I believe you need solid evidence before you start making accusations.)
Wishing you all the best and I hope you're enjoying the Texas weather.
It's gotta beat the pants off this Chicago snowpile I'm staring at right now.
The link to the story was posted on Drudge (does Matt Drudge not care about good journalistic practices?) and other credible sources. When other people post links here, I highly doubt they are doing much checking when it’s already on a credible source. Geller has a lot of credibility and I did nothing wrong by posting a link to their story. The site is still standing by the story by the way. When other people post a link on FR, I highly doubt they are doing anything beyond reading the story.
FR is not a news site. It’s a discussion forum.
Fake News was much worse in 1999