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Proper response: Ok reporter lets take a look at your backyard. CNN will blatantly sensationalize and falsify stories just to get ratings. Then turn around and
by johngalt 16y ago
Proper response:
Ok reporter lets take a look at your backyard. CNN will blatantly sensationalize and falsify stories just to get ratings. Then turn around and blame the sources when they are caught.
Your the one reporting the story Ms. Reporter, why aren't you verifying? Who here is really profiteering from base human impulses?
- BRadmin 16y agoI would imagine a proper response would be to actually address the questions - i.e. discuss what CL is doing to inhibit sexual exploitation. Calling someone else's backyard a mess might feel good - but doesn't say anything about your own.
- marcinw 16y agoSure, it's easy to come up with a "proper response" after the fact, but how about when you've been blindsided by a reporter with a microphone and camera in your face?
- johngalt 16y agoYou're correct, and that only makes it worse. On one hand the reporter is blaming Craig for providing the canvas for people to write bad things; on the other the reporter is actually doing the lying and manipulating to get paid. This is like blaming the business owner for the comments graffiti artists put on his walls. Even if he does his best to wash them off whenever he finds them.
- patio11 16y agoCNN is invested or in a joint venture with Washington Post, right? Have they cleaned up the "massage" ads that their own columnist figured out were a front for prostitution in 30 minutes of research? Any timetable on that? The article was, hmm, ten years or so ago. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/10/AR2007071001622.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07... p.s. Lest I be misread, I am not defending Craigslist here, just annoyed at persistent MSM claims to moral superiority.