Wapo's Mea Culpa over Russian hack of Vermont utility

[Core]

We're getting a small taste now of what I imagine the late 40's was with reds under the bed (I said small, at least for now!). Washington Post falls victim to this as well, and posts a retraction:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-government-hackers-do-not-appear-to-have-targeted-vermont-utility-say-people-close-to-investigation/2017/01/02/70c25956-d12c-11e6-945a-76f69a399dd5_story.html?utm_term=.738b5b5a6242

Such poor journalism these days. No vetting, no objectivity.

Reminds me of this I read yesterday. Given that there is a new found obsession with the KKK, a virtually defunct organization with almost no membership and even less relevance, A&E did a documentary on them. Except, it never aired, because it turned out that A&E was paying them to act: http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/kkk-leaders-allege-producers-paid-them-to-fake-scenes-in-canceled-ae-documentary-exclusive-1201950078/

[Water Rat]

[philoshop]

4 hours ago, Core said:

We're getting a small taste now of what I imagine the late 40's was with reds under the bed (I said small, at least for now!). Washington Post falls victim to this as well, and posts a retraction:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-government-hackers-do-not-appear-to-have-targeted-vermont-utility-say-people-close-to-investigation/2017/01/02/70c25956-d12c-11e6-945a-76f69a399dd5_story.html?utm_term=.738b5b5a6242

Such poor journalism these days. No vetting, no objectivity.

Reminds me of this I read yesterday. Given that there is a new found obsession with the KKK, a virtually defunct organization with almost no membership and even less relevance, A&E did a documentary on them. Except, it never aired, because it turned out that A&E was paying them to act: http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/kkk-leaders-allege-producers-paid-them-to-fake-scenes-in-canceled-ae-documentary-exclusive-1201950078/

I would have been kicked off the staff of my High School newspaper for that kind of 'journalism'. And much of what I did then was comedy/parody for laughs. It's insulting what's become of real journalism.