Why do you focus on "one fact"? Reporting, fact checking, editing is a fluid project that changes as the piece progresses. What needs fact checking in one draft is very different from what needs fact checking in another draft. And like I said, editors make changes that the fact checkers never see.
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The OP is about a news org basically republishing a viral text its people didn't write. There is no particular need to check every most of the facts like the OP did when a quick glance tells you that it's unreliable.
Sure, but my point wasn't to refute the article in any way. More of a preemption of people saying, "this is why journalism sucks!!" without understanding the dynamics of why things are the way they are.
Everything fuckin' sucks, it's not just journalism.
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