False news reporting exposed

It is to be expected, when the most sensationalist news is rewarded. Freelancers get paid more if the material is more spectacular, so it stand to reason that they will start to produce material that will earn them the highest pay.

If you don't put checks and balances in place, you will always get somebody that exploits the process.

An example is call centers. If you make the number of calls part of the KPI, you will get a high volume of calls. It does not mean that you have a high number of satisfied customers however. Rather make the ratio of satisfied users to number calls the KPI, and get another company to check satisfaction levels.
 
Nod said:
It is to be expected, when the most sensationalist news is rewarded. Freelancers get paid more if the material is more spectacular, so it stand to reason that they will start to produce material that will earn them the highest pay.

If you don't put checks and balances in place, you will always get somebody that exploits the process.

An example is call centers. If you make the number of calls part of the KPI, you will get a high volume of calls. It does not mean that you have a high number of satisfied customers however. Rather make the ratio of satisfied users to number calls the KPI, and get another company to check satisfaction levels.
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I always thought that newsitems get verified first before publication.

Don't they do it anymore?
 
amazing how the "anti-Israel" crowd so quiet..
 
Piepalook said:
I always thought that newsitems get verified first before publication.

Don't they do it anymore?
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I don't think they do it as thoroughly as they should. Everyone is try to break the news first.
 
Whats it about? Cant view it.
Is it the Rueters thing?
 
link just worked for me ... :confused:
It is about a supposed filming of a boy being shot dead (by Israeli troops), but in the clip it shows that the boy was moving after wards and that the angle was incorrect. Before this clip the film was put on a news station and broadcast as... Boy shot dead by Israeli forces . (or something like that)
 
JK8 said:
Whats it about? Cant view it.
Is it the Rueters thing?
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A little boy was supposedly shot and France 2, a state-owned French TV channel, got hold of some film and not only broadcast it, they took the highly unusual step of making copies and handed video cassettes to rivals like CNN and the BBC. France 2 correspondent Charles Enderlin said that, first of all, the boy had died and secondly, that Israel had killed this boy. In fact, it later transpired that Charles Enderlin had not even been in Gaza that day – he was in Ramallah, and a freelance Palestinian cameraman had given Charles Enderlin the film.

Aldura_2Almost immediately there were questions about who shot this boy. Later on, there were questions about whether the boy had actually been shot at all. The angle the boy appeared to be shot at did not come from the direction of where Israeli soldiers were stationed. How could Israeli soldiers be responsible for shooting this boy when they weren’t positioned in the line of fire, people asked?
 
Reuters, BBC, CNN, Newsweek, TNR, NYT, CBS..... all caught out lying time after time it's realing starting to get pathetic. They just apologise and carry on where they left off. No accountability just like our government :rolleyes:
 
alanf85 said:
Reuters, BBC, CNN, Newsweek, TNR, NYT, CBS..... all caught out lying time after time it's realing starting to get pathetic. They just apologise and carry on where they left off. No accountability just like our government :rolleyes:
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You forgot the worst... Fox.
 
yup..
is interesting how those that are so quickly to point out how "bad/evil/etc etc" Israel are so quiet on the thread..
 
lol well if you are going to push the fact that apparently everyone who thinks Israel is guilty of alot of sht is keeping quite, then let me point out the obvious.. Even if they didn't shoot THIS boy, really doesn't mean they have never shot anyone. So exactly what is your point? Oh look everyone, Hitler didn't kill THAT jew, he is standing right over there! I suppose that means he probably didn't kill the other 6 million, they'll turn up! Move along people, nothing to see here!

Weird how when I apply the same logic to Hitler, it falls flat on its face..
 
And there it is . . . Godwin's Law
 
huh?
your response is like saying this apple is not an orange so that means because a pear isnt an apple its an orange too, by association..
im not disputing anyone having been killed, war is always a bad thing, people die.. what the thread highlights is the "plight" and "helpless" and "massacre" that gets "reported" - you need to use your own insight and not just beleive what you hear / read (or see for that matter)

btw, Godwins law:
There are many corollaries to Godwin's law, some considered more canonical (by being adopted by Godwin himself)[2] than others invented later.[1] For example, there is a tradition in many newsgroups and other Internet discussion forums that once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically "lost" whatever debate was in progress. This principle is itself frequently referred to as Godwin's Law. It is considered poor form to raise such a comparison arbitrarily with the motive of ending the thread. There is a widely recognized codicil that any such ulterior-motive invocation of Godwin's law will be unsuccessful (this is sometimes referred to as "Quirk's Exception").[8]

Godwin's Law applies especially to inappropriate, inordinate, or hyperbolic comparisons of other situations (or one's opponent) with Hitler or Nazis or their actions. It does not apply to discussions directly addressing genocide, propaganda, or other mainstays of the Nazi regime.[citation needed] Whether it applies to humorous use or references to oneself is open to interpretation, because although mentioning and trivializing Nazism in an online discussion, this would not be a fallacious attack against a debate opponent.
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Pixie22 said:
lol well if you are going to push the fact that apparently everyone who thinks Israel is guilty of alot of sht is keeping quite, then let me point out the obvious.. Even if they didn't shoot THIS boy, really doesn't mean they have never shot anyone. So exactly what is your point? Oh look everyone, Hitler didn't kill THAT jew, he is standing right over there! I suppose that means he probably didn't kill the other 6 million, they'll turn up! Move along people, nothing to see here!

Weird how when I apply the same logic to Hitler, it falls flat on its face..
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