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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
May I suggest to everyone, if you are making a comment on something that's not included in the original post or any link therein, give me a clue, or better yet a link, to what you're talking about.
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My original comment was about the actual event the linked story referred to....somebody said "he didn't claim to be TS" and my response was pretty much "exactly...he claimed to be a gay drag queen, but a significant fraction of the press is getting it wrong".
These days Google News is indispensable...what passes for mainstream media journalism is such crap; when it's not biased it's just plain mistaken. Or both.
Recent TV coverage had the suicide doc Edward Van Dyk killing both his kids "and then turned the gun on himself". A pretty cliche, but in fact no gun was involved: he threw them off a 15th-story balcony and then jumped himself. An AP story on the same suicide was slugged "Ill. Town Try to Decipher Doc Suicide Note" and contained the sentence "Investigators said Van Dyk left no suicide note, leaving no clues for investigators, neighbors, and Van Dyk's wife and other relatives."
I guess that's why it's so hard to decipher.
How can you get the story that wrong and then claim it's "news"? At least with Google News you have a chance to compare coverages and maybe average out the noise.