💬 Barry Switzer for the win

planomateo

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The below article is making it's way around twitter this morning, pretty funny.

Reminds me of the news the other day that the Vikings were going to open the stadium for the homeless. One person tweets it and someone in the media ran with it without validating it.

What it takes to get a meeting with Trump

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Some of Trump’s longtime acquaintances have even had some fun with the spectacle, as reporters and gawkers camped out in the lobby of Trump Tower watch every move of the president-elect’s visitors.

Media widely reported Trump met with Barry Switzer, the former University of Oklahoma and Dallas Cowboys coach who has known Trump for decades. But Switzer said he was shopping with his wife and daughter on Fifth Avenue and decided to walk into the Trump Tower lobby after seeing the Naked Cowboy. He had no meeting scheduled.

"All the media people said, 'Coach what are you doing here,'" Switzer said in an interview. "I told them I was here to see the president like everyone else."

Switzer said he instead went upstairs in Trump Tower, bought a coffee at Starbucks and came back downstairs.

"I told the reporters I had a great visit, and that we were going to make the wishbone great again," he said. "I told them I was going to be Secretary of Offense and that Trump knew how to run the ball down the field."

"Then I went back to my hotel and laughed my ass off," he said, still laughing this week. "It went everywhere. Everyone believed it. I had all these calls, but I was just jerking people around."
 
Wait so people actually took that serious? I mean the second he made the "we're going to make the wishbone great again... I'm going to be his secretary of offense" comment I knew he was either a) joking or b) trolling.
 
That's the retarded media for you.

Report, THEN verify.

Partly true but its really the fault of the combination of the 24-news cycle and social media. The thing is now it doesnt matter WHAT you report, its when you report it. We even have to deal with it on a local level, a certain paper will hear a rumor and immediately report it. Then people are peppering us with "why didn't you guys report this yet?! Are you covering for them?! etc"... makes us look like we're not doing our job just because we're simply trying to get it right and then when something turns out to be wrong they end up looking like morons, but because report things IMMEDIATELY without verification people still come back to them.
 
Partly true but its really the fault of the combination of the 24-news cycle and social media. The thing is now it doesnt matter WHAT you report, its when you report it. We even have to deal with it on a local level, a certain paper will hear a rumor and immediately report it. Then people are peppering us with "why didn't you guys report this yet?! Are you covering for them?! etc"... makes us look like we're not doing our job just because we're simply trying to get it right and then when something turns out to be wrong they end up looking like morons, but because report things IMMEDIATELY without verification people still come back to them.

Yup. Twitter and the drive-by media have destroyed journalistic integrity ideals, no doubt.
 

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