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Originally Posted by pylon
So you are saying the media was in on it too? Just clarifying here.
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In a round about sort of way I guess you could say I am saying that. I would say they were part and parcel to the way the events unfolded simply because they did what media does these days and refused to think twice about a story or fact check in any shape or fashion. Let's be honest, the news agencies were stumbling over each other trying to break the next big angle on this story as it was unfolding. They took anything given to them and put it on the air, especially if it came from a remotely credible source. This was the fog of war in action, except this war was the competition between news rooms to generate ratings. I hope that this is a point that we can all agree upon. The media did a spectacular job broadcasting the images that day, but they did a horrible job maintaining any level of journalistic integrity.