The media is really inept. Their half-assed lazy reporting on Tom Petty isn't the first time they

[still_one]

have done this. In fact, it is way too frequent.

They did the same thing with Gabrielle Giffords

In 2006 they incorrectly reported that 12 miners were alive in a West Virginia mine collapse. They were wrong

Just before the SC decision on the ACA, major media outlets reported that the SC ruled it unconstitutional. They were wrong.

When Comey released the letter to the republicans in Congress, the press reported that the "email investigation was being reopened". That was a lie.

When Bret Baier reported that an indictment was pending against the Clinton Foundation. That was a lie.

There are stories now circulating through the NYTimes, that the killer in Las Vegas "just converted to Islam". As far as I am aware there is no verification.

Enough is enough. We invaded a country where over a million people were killed, based on a LIE propagated by the news media, because most of them were too lazy to actually find out what was happening.

[Angry Dragon]

1. Blame it on Fox

[still_one]

2. It isn't just fox

[Angry Dragon]

3. sure it is

[still_one]

6. Then obviously you didn't read the NYTimes when we invaded Iraq, or CNN when they misreported about

the mine disaster in Virginia, or CBS when they botched this story about Tom Petty, and I can go on and on.

While fox may be the most flagrant, it certainly isn't the only one.

I guess you missed the CNN discussion topic, "Are Jews really human"

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a50906/are-jews-people-was-a-real/

It permeates through the entire industry

[Angry Dragon]

10. the wealthy control the news

[still_one]

15. True, but that by itself isn't necessarily good or bad. It is when their profit motive, and other

personal conflicts of interests gets in the way of serving the public, I think that contributes to a lot of the problem

I think we are saying the same thing

[Angry Dragon]

28. yes we are ............ a good day to you

[MontanaMama]

4. This.

I just left work early...bawled all the way home after hearing Tom has passed. Now I am listening to his XM channel online and his friends are hosting a live call in show right now and they're saying Tom has not passed but is not expected to recover. While this isn't good news, I'm angry that the MSM jumped the gun (sorry for the firearm reference - I have no words today). They're worthless. They have no credibility. I am by no means supportive of Dotard's persecution of the media, at some point you have to just call it like it is...These fools are doing it to themselves.

[arthritisR_US]

17. "These fools are doing it to themselves", excellent point. We

literally suffer because democracy has been flushed down the toilet by their failure to report the truth.

[Volaris]

24. Maybe we need an ongoing gofundme account set up

To fund an actual news outlet in this country that does actual journalism with actual foreign correspondents and reports in every major region in America and a dedicated investigative corps in DC.
like the AP, only non-profit and completely donor- funded.
At this point, we could probably get Keith Olbermann to sign on to... be the managing editor

[MontanaMama]

27. Democracy Now. Free Speech TV

They are fundraising right now. https://www.freespeech.org/

[onenote]

5. CBS relied on information provided by the LAPD. LAPD has apologized

I'm not sure that the blame on this falls squarely on the media when they relied on information from the LAPD.

[still_one]

7. There was a time when two reliable sources were needed for confirmation. This happens all too

frequently.

We invaded Iraq based on a LIE because the media didn't do their job.

One news source in the U.S., Knight Ridder got it right:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/17/the-reporting-team-that-g_n_91981.html

[arthritisR_US]

20. Precisely, their desire for low hanging fruit is our demise.

[still_one]

21. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

[politicaljunkie41910]

8. He gambled. He drank liquor. He lived with a women he wasn't married to and presumably slept

with her. I'm going to go out on a limb and state that I doubt very much that this 64 year old white man, converted to Islam.

[still_one]

9. I agree.

[kwassa]

11. Tom Petty?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

12. In defense of the media, it looks like it was

initially said that Petty had died, then the hospital retracted that. So the media was simply reporting what they'd been told at any given time.

Meanwhile, I was up very late watching the coverage of what had happened in Las Vegas, and what was most intriguing to me was that it took a very, very long time for any reports of dead began to appear. It was about 2:30 am Mountain Time, where I am, before there was finally a scroll posted that said 2 dead, and some double digit number wounded. And that was a good three hours after the beginning of the event.

[Baconator]

13. Shit happens...

... and there's a rush to be first.

Mistakes will be made. The ones you watch for are the organizations that don't acknowledge it...

Of which there are many...

[Coventina]

14. But, I've been assured here on DU that TMZ never gets it wrong!!!

[still_one]

18. My bad

[Coventina]

22. In your defense, I wasn't referring to you.

[still_one]

23. ..............................................................................................

[WhiskeyGrinder]

16. Tape this to your computer and you'll never be disappointed.

[still_one]

19. wow. Thank-you, that says it all

[WinkyDink]

25. Three more: "KAL 007 landed safely on Sakhalin Is." "The Israeli athletes are alive."

Then there was"Princess Diana has only a broken leg."

I remember the reporters for the last two being Dan Rather and Brian Williams.

[still_one]

26. The list goes on for a while. Dan Rather was setup by Rove, but still, if his staff had been more

careful it would have been avoided