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Originally Posted by kipperfan
Ok, I'll play.
So, if we assume everything you're saying is true, why exactly did a USA based website, that seems to have maybe 1 or 2/100 stories having anything to do with the country of Canada, decide to create this "hoax" and begin to perpetrate these "lies"?
Why did they choose Rob Ford? Why Toronto? Wouldn't it have been much better (ie. more profitable via page views) for their website to "lie" about the mayor of say, New York? LA? Philly? Miami? Boston? I could probably name another 20 cities (if not many more) and their mayors that Gawker readers would care a helluva lot more about then Rob Freakin Ford and Toronto. So please, do explain Mel, why, why did they start in with these evil lies when at the time the Toronto Star (nor anyone else) had said a single thing about Ford being a crack man??
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Not necessarily saying that its Gawker or the Star that created the hoax, but the possibility exists that the "drug dealers created the hoax"
what if the video was fake? Then the question comes in about how hard they looked at this video before running with the story.
And if they had an inkling that it was fake (star and gawker) and didn't want to spend their own money to secure it, then there's the question of running the story without verified facts.