As Twitchy told you earlier this week, a reported “hate crime” supposedly involving a racist note being found on a student’s car at St. Olaf College in Minnesota made the media rounds quickly. However, the college now says the claim was a hoax:
‘Here we go again’! Yet another college ‘hate crime’ exposed as a hoax https://t.co/R9LEV6BkLs pic.twitter.com/3x8sQbFSK7
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 10, 2017
The Washington Post reported the story, and the original headline now appears over this tiny little “update”:
Hell of an update pic.twitter.com/qwuUeeXi0q
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) May 11, 2017
Will the MSM ever start holding off on jumping all over those kinds of questionable stories until they know all the facts? Highly unlikely:
https://twitter.com/VirtualSignals/status/862893973035024384
Salacious headline – 60 pt font and exclamation points!
Retraction or edit for truthiness – tiny and out of the way.
— Mateo is here legally (@ElLosMateo) May 11, 2017
Another leftwing communist Democrat Party game!
— Mark A. Plenn (@MarkPlenn2) May 12, 2017
https://twitter.com/EF517_V2/status/862694607301332992
And yet another example won’t stop the media from reporting the next one as fact without wondering if it’s true or not.
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