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The Daily Mail Snopes Story And Fact Checking The Fact Checkers
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| 12/22/2016
| Kalev Leetaru
Posted on 12/29/2016 6:49:02 PM PST by Tennessean4Bush
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First article I have read about this from a site like Forbes and where they have actually tried to contact Snopes to see if the article is true.
To: Tennessean4Bush
The Daily Mails article makes a number of claims about the sites principles and organization...
Unless they're referring to the
principles under which the site was founded and operates, I'm thinking that the word they want is
principals.
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posted on
12/29/2016 6:57:07 PM PST
by
Bob
(Now, Republicans get to sing "Happy Days Are Here Again". Enjoy the suck, rats.)
To: Tennessean4Bush
I had assumed...
I had assumed...
I had assumed....
Sounds like this guy did not do any fact checking just assumed.
Aren't reporters suppose to check things out for themselves?
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posted on
12/29/2016 7:00:02 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Read the article. He does precisely that, he investigates his assumptions and finds that he was wrong.
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posted on
12/29/2016 7:02:11 PM PST
by
Tennessean4Bush
(An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
To: Bob
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posted on
12/29/2016 7:02:37 PM PST
by
Tennessean4Bush
(An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
To: Tennessean4Bush
From what I've read Snopes is filled with lefties.
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posted on
12/29/2016 7:03:36 PM PST
by
CaptainK
(...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
To: Tennessean4Bush
Snopes has put out hundreds of articles per day for years in support of their god in the white mosque.
Have been wondering what would happen when the Mikkelsons have to pay federal income tax again.
Wonder what Al Sharpton’s plan is....
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posted on
12/29/2016 7:03:46 PM PST
by
treetopsandroofs
(Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
To: CaptainK
I was hoping he’d write about the claim that his new wife is a former prostitute that also works for Snopes.
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posted on
12/29/2016 7:05:42 PM PST
by
Tennessean4Bush
(An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
To: Tennessean4Bush
The author of this piece is shocked, shocked, that on close examination Snopes.com appears to be disreputable.
I guess he doesn't read FR.
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posted on
12/29/2016 7:07:45 PM PST
by
TChad
(Propagandists should not be treated like journalists.)
To: TChad
He had not, apparently, had a reason to dig deeper until recently.
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posted on
12/29/2016 7:09:23 PM PST
by
Tennessean4Bush
(An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
To: Tennessean4Bush; Jim Robinson
Snopes USED to be a decent site. Now, it is CLEARLY a leftwing hack site.
Jim, I make a plea again to you to consider removing snopes as a credible source on the homepage of FR. :)
To: SoFloFreeper
Agreed. Let’s remove the Snopes as a reputable fact check site. It is run by an embezzler, porn star, and dominatrix. All exceedingly liberal.
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posted on
12/29/2016 7:16:05 PM PST
by
Jan_Sobieski
(Sanctification)
To: Tennessean4Bush
Good post. I always thought Snopes was leftist based on which news they decided to check.
To: Tennessean4Bush
I did read the article. He did not investigate until someone else did the leg work for him.
I knew snopes was dubious over a decade ago because I fact checked their fact checking. I do not depend on just one source for anything. I am not a reporter just a goof-ball with a keyboard. Yet I knew things that this "academic" did not because he assumed, he never questioned until the wheels started coming off the wagon.
He gets a small pat for actually looking in the hole after someone else dug it. He gets a kick for not doing his job for years.
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posted on
12/29/2016 7:19:25 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
To: Tennessean4Bush
Snopes is nothing but a pack of leftard scumbags, still yearning for the sixties.
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posted on
12/29/2016 7:23:55 PM PST
by
dsc
(Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
To: Bob
Is no one literate save thee and me?
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posted on
12/29/2016 7:24:58 PM PST
by
dsc
(Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
To: Tennessean4Bush
He had not, apparently, had a reason to dig deeper until recently. Meaning, he had never read a conservative critique of Snopes, or he did not consider that it might be valid.
To his credit, he seems willing to have his mind changed by facts.
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posted on
12/29/2016 7:25:08 PM PST
by
TChad
(Propagandists should not be treated like journalists.)
To: Tennessean4Bush
Unfortunately, Forbes is another one of those sites that blocks readers who use AdBlock. Since I refuse to turn it off, all I need to do is read the brilliant comments by my fellow FReepers to know the real deal.
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posted on
12/29/2016 7:36:19 PM PST
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: Tennessean4Bush
“as I had assumed that a fact checking site as reputable as Snopes”
Uh, yeah. Right. Proves the author is a complete idiot.
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posted on
12/29/2016 7:57:04 PM PST
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
And until the Daily Mail article it appears nobody else did either. He lays out how he came upon the story and all the steps he took to confirm it. I’m not sure what else he could have done. Did you expect him to write this 5 years ago? Why him? Why not another reporter?
You appear to be singling out this one reporter for having done a job, following up on the DM article, that nobody else did.
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posted on
12/29/2016 8:08:08 PM PST
by
wiggen
(#JeSuisCharlie)
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