60 KKK Members Commit Suicide After Learning Harriet Tubman Will Be on $20 Bill
Oprah Winfrey Pregnant with First Child at 61
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You fell for a hoax.
You fell for a hoax.
Definitely a hoax!
IMO there are way too many of these fake, hoax or satirical stories re-posted by bloggers making the rounds here and at other sites.
A web site like the well-known as a hoax/fake site “tmzworldnews.com” will post a completely fake story like this and then it gets picked up and copied verbatim by other hoax sites and then by others and others and then by lazy bloggers such as Michael van der Galien who think they are “freelance journalists” when they are not and who obviously can’t be bothered to fact check anything (well neither does the MSM but that doesn’t excuse sloppiness on “our” side), and soon enough this garbage makes its way to sites I otherwise like such as PJMedia or Breitbart, and unfortunately undermining their credibility.
Seriously, would it have been all that difficult before writing your op-ed to have contacted Reynolds American Inc. Chief Marketing Executive Lawrence Harrison to confirm whether this was true or not. Would it have been too difficult to look at the source for the claim to see that it was a hoax story?
And you can’t even spell correctly – “After all, I'm quite sure none of us wants to live in a world in which heroine dealers can put up billboards telling our youth that "using heroine is cool!"
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/heroine
I’m not sure about heroinedealers putting up billboards telling our youth that "using heroine is cool!" I think that dealing “heroines” is still illegal unless of course you are talking about billboards for the Star Wars Rouge One movie. /s
Or perhaps this is your Emily Litella moment. Violins/Violence – Heroines/Heroin. NEVER MIND!
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/emilys-editorial-reply/n8635?snl=1
I am also curious how much money someone can actually make by setting up a website or a blog and re-posting painfully obvious hoax stories originated by someone else and how much one can make by spamming it here, on other sites, on FB, Twitter, etc.? Do you get paid by the number of reposts and links, by the word, by the number of clicks you generate? And does it help to be illiterate or is that a prerequisite? I’m looking for a part-time work from home gig. Any advice you might offer is gravely (or greatly) appreciated.