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This thread makes me want to stop coming to HN.
by InclinedPlane 11y ago
This thread makes me want to stop coming to HN.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoWhy is it so? This thread is one of the reasons why I come to HN. It turns out that yet another important story of this year was utter fabrication and lies. I wouldn't know about it if not for HN, and would keep believing falsehoods.
- foldr 11y agoThat point of view on the story has been covered all over the mainstream media. E.g.: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/22/clock-controversy-may-cause-headache-for-obama-as-doubts-raised-about-story.html http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/22/clock-controversy...
- TeMPOraL 11y agoI don't read mainstream media. Too much bullshit. If something is important enough, it'll pop up on HN - usually with the people in the know pointing out all the blatant lies made by the news source.
- foldr 11y agoWell, sure, if HN is your only source of information, then you wouldn't know anything if it wasn't for HN.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoI didn't say it's the only source.
- foldr 11y agoI know, but you made it sound as if HN was giving you information that you couldn't have gotten from other sources, whereas in fact, in the particular case we're discussing, just reading the news would have been sufficient.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoFair enough. The information about this case, as opposed to the original story, didn't pop up in any other source I usually track, which provides an interesting example of another phenomenon - controversial stories get spread widely, but their retractions don't.
- jaxomlotus 11y agoCan you elaborate on why? Do you not feel this lawsuit is excessive and a slap in the face to the enormous amounts of good-will Ahmed and his family generated in the first place?