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Old 10-20-2016, 01:41 PM   #1427 (permalink)
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Yeah, but that's always been the motive of the media and if people really dig into as much as they do, nothing will get done.
Nah, this is modern gotcha journalism. After people became blatantly aware of yellow journalism the field started to get a pretty nice self-enforced code of ethics, but as news had to become more entertaining, it got enforced less and less often.

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But, there's gotta be a certain point where if a person is recorded as saying something offensive, the blowing up is understandable. It's on a case by case basis.
And on pretty much all of these cases, what was "offensive" wasn't even that bad and just reactionary democrats shouting about how the most recent thing the other guy said was really evil.
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