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(46,327 posts) Mon Mar 30, 2015, 12:38 PM Mar 2015

Sometimes they really failed, badly.

One thing they didn't mention, when the New York Times ran editorials "proving scientifically" that powered flight and rockets in space were "impossible."

http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_1402_the-19-biggest-screw-ups-in-history-journalism/

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When the Press failed... (Original Post) Archae Mar 2015 OP

Or when Richard Jewell had his life ruined... Archae Mar 2015 #2

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1. I think the press fails us just about all the time. However, my beef is nothing

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 12:53 PM

Mar 2015

compared to the two wrongly ID'd as terrorists. That easily could have cost them their lives.

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2. Or when Richard Jewell had his life ruined...

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 01:03 PM

Mar 2015

When he was fingered by the media as the "Olympic Park Bomber," and it turns out to be a bomb left by a militant CHRISTIAN terrorist.

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3. I know. Kind of trumps my carping about how they don't do the job they

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 01:07 PM

Mar 2015

got Constitutional protection to do by a few universes, doesn't it?