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Are you saying you don't recognize the existence of fraud as a category of crime that the government already defines and can prosecute?
by gdulli 10y ago
Are you saying you don't recognize the existence of fraud as a category of crime that the government already defines and can prosecute?
- gozur88 10y agoI don't recognize fraud as a category of crime related to a news story.
- dredmorbius 10y agoThe rest of the world does. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/03/29/felony-charges-planned-parenthood-film/99767988/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/03/29/felony...
- gozur88 10y agoI have no idea what point you're trying to make with that link.
- dredmorbius 10y agoThat fraud committed under cover of "news", "journalism", or other forms of reporting, remains fraud. Here committed by a "citizen journalist", interpreting the term very broadly. There's the Infowars / Alex (nutjob) Jones / Pizzagate case as well, where, under threat of a lawsuit, Jones has tried to walk back earlier reporting. (There's another Alex S. Jones, a serious journalist, associated with the Shorenstein Center. Who I strongly suspect curses his, or Nutjob's, parents, on a fairly regular basis. One of the rather more pronounced, ironic, and tragic cases of identity confusion.) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones_(journalist) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones_(journalist)
- gozur88 10y agoYou're mixing apples and oranges here. There's a difference between committing fraud to get a true story and printing something the government decides isn't true.