Normally I agree with that (I love it when people make some outrageous claim and then tell me I'm "giving them homework" when I ask for a cite) but there are three big problems with your assertion:
1. If we apply your standard, every post on FR from a news outlet would have to be backed up by a second confirmation document. For example, if someone posted a thread about the number of Iraqis killed in a car bombing, they would have to produce death certificates. If someone posted the Radar story about Huckabee's rally with Chuck Norris and Rick Flair, they would have to post a video link to the entire rally. Same thing if the NYT, Fox News or Human Events did a similar story.
2. I am not the asserter, Radar is, and I have already agreed to broadcast it if they are not being truthful.
3. Now you're asserting that Radar cooks up false stories...don't you need an original docuument for that, like a memo from a Radar editor to a reporter saying "Get Ron Paul"?
“1. If we apply your standard, every post on FR from a news outlet would have to be backed up by a second confirmation document. For example, if someone posted a thread about the number of Iraqis killed in a car bombing, they would have to produce death certificates. If someone posted the Radar story about Huckabee’s rally with Chuck Norris and Rick Flair, they would have to post a video link to the entire rally. Same thing if the NYT, Fox News or Human Events did a similar story.”
The official website for the concert doesn’t list any bands.
There is one blog post on another site not linked to in the article that says they don’t have money for the picnic grounds deposit. So it won’t even happen most likely.
Radar said they received a notice. It’s not too much to ask them to produce the notice!
Another red herring by you. I’m not asking for lots of sources - just the one the Radar claimed they got.
Who sent the notice? Where is it? Why don’t they reproduce it? What is their standard for publishing “news?” Very little apparently.
“2. I am not the asserter, Radar is, and I have already agreed to broadcast it if they are not being truthful.”
You asserted that they said they have a notice. Where is it?
“3. Now you’re asserting that Radar cooks up false stories...don’t you need an original docuument for that, like a memo from a Radar editor to a reporter saying “Get Ron Paul”?”
Hello mcfly - they claimed they have a memo or notice. They didn’t publish it. You must still be backing Dan Rather too, eh? Fake but accurate - apparently that’s the Radar’s standard.