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Re:AP fires reporter behind retracted ‘Russian missiles’ story by _-david-_ on Monday November 21, 2022 @10:59PM (#33701664)
Getting fired for almost starting WW3 due to a fake story you wrote seems like a pretty light punishment. Maybe the AP will do a better job fact checking in the future before causing a war.
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Re:AP fires reporter behind retracted ‘Russian missiles’ story by tomjakubowski on Monday November 21, 2022 @11:22PM (#33701852)
If nuclear powers decided to launch missiles based only on random newspaper articles we'd all be long dead.
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Re:AP fires reporter behind retracted ‘Russian missiles’ story by roywiggins on Monday November 21, 2022 @11:08PM (#33701753)
Even if it had been a Russian missile it would not have caused a wider war. The Soviets shot down a whole airliner in 1983 and didn't cause one.
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Re:AP fires reporter behind retracted ‘Russian missiles’ story by kube-system on Monday November 21, 2022 @11:17PM (#33701817)
Maybe that’s why the Russians got away with the same thing again in 2014.
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Re:AP fires reporter behind retracted ‘Russian missiles’ story by duxup on Monday November 21, 2022 @11:06PM (#33701732)
I doubt anyone at the Pentagon is launching missiles after reading an AP story.
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Re:AP fires reporter behind retracted ‘Russian missiles’ story by encryptluks2 on Monday November 21, 2022 @11:08PM (#33701751)
Yet Bush gets a free pass for actually starting a war on false information.
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