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Re:Debris field found in search for missing submersible by YLYvYkHeB2NRNT on Thursday June 22, 2023 @09:50PM (#36441844)
The cynic in me whispers that the alphabet media were told what really happened, but said, wait a minute... We can milk this. Here's the narrative for the next few days...
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Re:Debris field found in search for missing submersible by mulmen on Thursday June 22, 2023 @10:33PM (#36442131)
That doesn't make you a cynic, it makes you a conspiracy theorist.
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Re:Debris field found in search for missing submersible by LanceH on Thursday June 22, 2023 @10:54PM (#36442264)
Not because any one of them would be against doing something like that, but no one of them could resist breaking it themselves.
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Re:Debris field found in search for missing submersible by bdowling on Friday June 23, 2023 @11:10AM (#36447907)
Being a conspiracy theorist doesn’t make you wrong, it means you believe that the likely motivations or interests of various parties are likely the actual cause of the observed behavior, even when there is no proof.

Here, news outlets probably would have been motivated to carry the “hope” story even if they knew it was false, because money. A conspiracy theorist would believe that because the news outlets probably would have been so motivated, then they probably actually were so motivated.

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