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"Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter arrested" (Title intro and article screw-up at Google)
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Posted on 12/19/2008 1:29:07 PM PST by jessduntno

Edited on 12/19/2008 3:03:23 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

This is EXACTLY the way the UPI blurb on Google reads:

UPI Intro blurb Google

Potential Palin in-law arrested in Alaska
United Press International - 2 hours ago

Sarah Palin's daughter, Bristol, has been arrested in Wasilla, Alaska, on drug charges, police say. Police said Sherry L. Johnston, whose son Levi is ...

At the actual article it says:

Potential Palin in-law arrested in Alaska

"..WASILLA, Alaska, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- The likely mother-in-law of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter, Bristol, has been arrested in Wasilla, Alaska, on drug charges, police say..."

The bolded parts illustrate the difference. I doubt this was an accident.


TOPICS: US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: bristolpalin; deceit; google; medialies; palin; palinfamily; sherryjohnston; waronsarah; wasilla
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"Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter, Bristol, has been arrested on drug charges"

How is this legal? How ist it anything but the scummiest of journalism?

What say you, defenders of the "free web" advocates?

1 posted on 12/19/2008 1:29:07 PM PST by jessduntno
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To: jessduntno

RoTo-Reuters, all the sludge no one else would ever print


2 posted on 12/19/2008 1:30:46 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed)
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To: jessduntno
What say you, defenders of the "free web" advocates?

We say, click your link and see that any such error has been corrected.

3 posted on 12/19/2008 1:31:36 PM PST by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: jessduntno

I don’t think Bristol was arrested,its her future husband and motherinlaw. If I were Bristol I’d turn that loser loose.


4 posted on 12/19/2008 1:31:40 PM PST by linn37
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To: jessduntno

where is the actual headline? Complaining without a ‘real’ link?


5 posted on 12/19/2008 1:31:44 PM PST by BGHater (Obama is a Neocon.)
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To: jessduntno

Huh? I don’t see it. Maybe it was “corrected”.


6 posted on 12/19/2008 1:32:39 PM PST by LiberConservative (That temperatures are actually falling now illustrates how fast the world is warming.)
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To: jessduntno

Gov. Palin had better have just got a big start on her campaign war chest from this.


7 posted on 12/19/2008 1:32:46 PM PST by polymuser (Bye, bye Miss American Pie.)
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To: jessduntno

looks like they’ve already fixed it


8 posted on 12/19/2008 1:32:49 PM PST by Lloyd227 (Class of 1998 (let's all help the Team McCain spider monkeys decide how to moderate))
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To: jessduntno

I think you may have jumped the gun on this...


9 posted on 12/19/2008 1:33:14 PM PST by steveo (Merry Christmas ACLU!)
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To: linn37

I thought it was just the mother in law.

Which I still believe. This is Reuters committing libel. Hope they get soaked.


10 posted on 12/19/2008 1:33:56 PM PST by agere_contra (So ... where's the birth certificate?)
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To: Lloyd227

As if that matters: the damage is already done. Bristol is a pregnant druggie, that’s what The Sheep will believe.


11 posted on 12/19/2008 1:34:04 PM PST by Old Sarge (For the first time in my life, I am ashamed to be an American)
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To: jessduntno

The leftists are REALLY afraid of Sarah Palin. Rightly so.


12 posted on 12/19/2008 1:34:35 PM PST by ronnyquest ("Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: jessduntno

.....wow....

All the news that’s fit to make up??


13 posted on 12/19/2008 1:34:43 PM PST by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925)
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To: steveo

I still see it. It isn’t the headline but the lead line in two stories from reuters and UPI.
Sarah Palin’s daughter, Bristol, has been arrested in Wasilla, Alaska, on drug charges, police say.


14 posted on 12/19/2008 1:34:52 PM PST by Afisra
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To: Afisra
UPI has corrected it.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/12/19/Potential_Palin_in-law_arrested_in_Alaska/UPI-71811229720110/

15 posted on 12/19/2008 1:37:40 PM PST by Tamar1973 (Riding the Korean Wave, one Bae Yong Joon drama at a time!)
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To: jessduntno
... Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter, Bristol, has been arrested on drug charges, authorities said on Friday. Sherry Johnston ...

They've corrected the headline the this is what you get for a description when you do a search on Reuters for "palin".

16 posted on 12/19/2008 1:38:04 PM PST by ducdriver (99% of liberals give the other 1% a bad name.)
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To: jessduntno

It’s actually UPI


17 posted on 12/19/2008 1:38:20 PM PST by Borges
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To: jessduntno
The google intro says:

Potential Palin in-law arrested in Alaska
United Press International - 37 minutes ago
Sarah Palin's daughter, Bristol, has been arrested in Wasilla,
Alaska, on drug charges, police say. Police said Sherry L. Johnston, whose son Levi is ...

The article says:

Potential Palin in-law arrested in Alaska

"WASILLA, Alaska, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- The likely mother-in-law of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter, Bristol, has been arrested in Wasilla, Alaska, on drug charges, police say.

Police said Sherry L. Johnston, whose son Levi is engaged to the younger Palin, is facing six felony criminal counts for allegedly manufacturing and possessing narcotics in her Wasilla home, The Politico said Friday.

Johnston was arrested Thursday by police, who searched her family home in attempt to find additional evidence to support the narcotics allegations.

Johnston, whose son is the father of Bristol Palin's unborn child, has since been freed from the Mat-Su Pretrial Facility on $2,000 bond.

The elder Palin has already issued a statement about the charges against Johnston, whose grandchild is expected to be born Saturday, the Politico said.

"This is not a state government matter," a spokesman for the former Republican vice presidential candidate said. "Therefore the governor's communications staff will not be providing comment or scheduling interview opportunities.""

18 posted on 12/19/2008 1:40:11 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: jessduntno

WHatever...Ted Kennedy killed a woman, this is no big deal.


19 posted on 12/19/2008 1:41:30 PM PST by bigjoesaddle ("Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats." -- P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: LiberConservative; BGHater
The link shows multiple headlines with additional links. Toward the bottom, there is a headline (no picture) that says "Potential Palin in-law arrested in Alaska." Reading the blurb under the headline, it says "Sarah Palin's daughter, Bristol, has been arrested in Wasilla, Alaska, on drug charges, police say."

However, when you click the actual link, that line is not in the story.

The story actually has this as the first sentence: "The likely mother-in-law of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter, Bristol, has been arrested in Wasilla, Alaska, on drug charges, police say."

Nice omission of those first 8 words describing the mother-in-law in the preview.

20 posted on 12/19/2008 1:42:07 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (Hey Obama, why lawyer up when you can pony up? Show us your vault copy BC)
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