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Re:Almost Nothing About the ‘Apple Harvests Gold from iPhone... by Retric on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @06:59PM (#11538358)
WSJ is one of the wost offenders for this. Their origional content is often a mix of public datasets with a visual and deeply biased stories that are practically propaganda. It's a simple test pick 10 major stories from this time last year and look for inaccuracy's. Last time I did this they and several other papers scored a flat ZERO.

Several papers could not even get everyone's name correct.

Going this day from last year I picked a short strait factual story at random. http://www.wsj.com/articles/spanish-teacher-killed-with-cros... and reading the two comments I saw at least two possible innacuracy's vs http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/20/teacher-killed-... how many wounded and was second teacher shot or stabbed. Thinking about it the spin is the fact they are not rating the attack by a 13 year old as a criminal case. It also starts with "Madrid-" then says the attack is in Barcelona, which is odd but I am willing to let that slide. Feel free to dig into this one or pick something else.

PS: I started this first time around because I had seen several stories I knew about in a few papers and not a single one was completely accurate.

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Re:Almost Nothing About the ‘Apple Harvests Gold from iPhone... by ipsin on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @08:01PM (#11538690)
It also starts with "Madrid-" then says the attack is in Barcelona

A location in the beginning of a newspaper story is taken to mean the location of the reporter, not the event.

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Re:Almost Nothing About the ‘Apple Harvests Gold from iPhone... by Retric on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @08:55PM (#11538901)
To clarify, they are ~400 miles apart so I can see not traveling the distance. But, reading it seems they are reporting what they saw on the news instead of any kind of first hand account. Sure, they called the local police, but in terms of actual reporting it's a bit thin.
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