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by briandear
552 days ago
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Most “journalism” these days is done from a desk. The Migrants eating Cats story for example — the national networks ran statements from certain local officials but didn’t actually go there and interview or investigate directly. They relied upon statements from public officials to refute the story. (Not saying it was a true or false story, but the major “news” networks certainly didn’t spend much, if any, time there — they didn’t investigate anything; they reported what public officials said.) Many stories might as well be AI: feed into it something Trump said, then the algorithm creates a story with lots of “without evidence” qualifiers and then call it a day. The media rarely investigates anything — they report on what others investigate or choose not to investigate and that’s printed as fact depending on who made the claim. |
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This is just trivially debunkable. Video evidence to the contrary - with CNN reporters wandering through town, interviewing locals - takes seconds to Google.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTWHDF-2FlI
Here's PBS doing the same - drone shots, interviews in local churches, talking to Haitian families in the area, for a detailed ~9 minute segment:
https://www.pbs.org/video/ohio-city-with-haitian-migrant-inf...
It got more investigating than the wild, baseless claim deserved, if anything. Especially considering the person who started it recanted.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/-just-exploded-springfi...
> The woman behind an early Facebook post spreading a harmful and baseless claim about Haitian immigrants eating local pets that helped thrust a small Ohio city into the national spotlight says she had no firsthand knowledge of any such incident and is now filled with regret and fear as a result of the ensuing fallout.