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Re:History by lawsuit: the “inventor of e-mail” targets Tech... by elandybarr on Saturday June 17, 2017 @05:12PM (#14577771)
I have spoken to him at length myself.

If you don't think Infowars is a serious news outlet, maybe you haven't watched them? In about 20 years they have had I think 3 retractions, which a propaganda rag like CNN or the Washington Post has to do weekly.

I would wish that HN would have more people who care about primary sources - that is what my academic training taught me. Perhaps if you listened to any of Bannon's speeches rather than malicious rumor and hearsay, you would have a different opinion.

Re:History by lawsuit: the “inventor of e-mail” targets Tech... by moonman272 on Saturday June 17, 2017 @05:24PM (#14577807)
They don't have retractions because they don't care about accuracy, whereas places like CNN will issue retractions or corrections for anything as simple as a spelling error. Your argument is like saying a football team is the best team in baseball because they've never lost a baseball game.
Re:History by lawsuit: the “inventor of e-mail” targets Tech... by icelancer on Saturday June 17, 2017 @05:22PM (#14577802)
>I would wish that HN would have more people who care about primary sources

>If you don't think Infowars is a serious news outlet, maybe you haven't watched them

Sometimes the comments write themselves.

Re:History by lawsuit: the “inventor of e-mail” targets Tech... by mcphage on Saturday June 17, 2017 @05:35PM (#14577837)
They had to do one a month or so ago because they were peddling an insane theory involving yogurt.
Re:History by lawsuit: the “inventor of e-mail” targets Tech... by bcg1 on Saturday June 17, 2017 @09:54PM (#14578581)
Re:History by lawsuit: the “inventor of e-mail” targets Tech... by PhasmaFelis on Sunday June 18, 2017 @03:36AM (#14579481)
Again, Alex Jones has literally claimed that the world is controlled by Satanists and lizard men from space. It is not to his credit that he hasn't retracted those claims.