[robertpaulsen]

"But the incident wasn't true. Every thing else is just semantics."

Not the issue.

AppyPappy's statement was, "Their shoddy ass journalism got people killed".

My response was that a stellar journalistic investigation of a true incident would have killed just as many. The point being: Would AppyPappy then laud such reporting?

[Southack]

"My response was that a stellar journalistic investigation of a true incident would have killed just as many. The point being: Would AppyPappy then laud such reporting?"

That's messed up.

You report the truth. The truth will always have consequences, that's part of life.

But if you report a lie that you made up or didn't bother to fact-check, then the consequences are on your head.

Yet you are trying to equate the two, as if telling the truth or a lie makes no difference if the outcome is the same.

That's a case of moral relativism gone wild.