WUSA scrubbed all videos of dreadlock hoax and denies Mikea Turner's family friends disclosure?

[Anonymous]

New poster here.

Why can’t it have been an honest mistake, and in that case, why punish the reporter unduly? This episode will be in her history anyway, so her future career prospects are tainted.

I wonder what led the girl to lie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those discounting this: a random 11-year-old girl's lie made it from agenda-driven Mikea Turner's exclusive interview on a.m. local news -- to the cover of The New York Times, 6PM national broadcast news (20M viewers), and CNN -- while also looping in the vice president of the United States, all in less than 12 hours. Days later it was proven to be a completely fabricated hoax. Freaking incredible. Now all the reporters, editors and producers who pushed it quietly scrub their contributions and act like it never happened. This should immediately be a case study at every journalism and communications department in the US.

+1 million

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
New poster here.

Why can’t it have been an honest mistake, and in that case, why punish the reporter unduly? This episode will be in her history anyway, so her future career prospects are tainted.

I wonder what led the girl to lie.

Not in today’s environment. She’ll be labeled a hero for ‘breaking’ the story even though it turned out not to be true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those discounting this: a random 11-year-old girl's lie made it from agenda-driven Mikea Turner's exclusive interview on a.m. local news -- to the cover of The New York Times, 6PM national broadcast news (20M viewers), and CNN -- while also looping in the vice president of the United States, all in less than 12 hours. Days later it was proven to be a completely fabricated hoax. Freaking incredible. Now all the reporters, editors and producers who pushed it quietly scrub their contributions and act like it never happened. This should immediately be a case study at every journalism and communications department in the US.

+1 million

+1 billion

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those discounting this: a random 11-year-old girl's lie made it from agenda-driven Mikea Turner's exclusive interview on a.m. local news -- to the cover of The New York Times, 6PM national broadcast news (20M viewers), and CNN -- while also looping in the vice president of the United States, all in less than 12 hours. Days later it was proven to be a completely fabricated hoax. Freaking incredible. Now all the reporters, editors and producers who pushed it quietly scrub their contributions and act like it never happened. This should immediately be a case study at every journalism and communications department in the US.

Well, the proper course of action, in my opinion, would for the media to go on a full assault on the girl. Hound her every step. Put her name and photo everywhere, captioned with "LIAR" in 400-point font. Ruin her life, and the lives of her family, friends, and anyone who allies themselves with her.

In other words, they should treat her like they treat Trump.


But they're taking the high road instead, and just giving her a pass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
New poster here.

Why can’t it have been an honest mistake, and in that case, why punish the reporter unduly? This episode will be in her history anyway, so her future career prospects are tainted.

I wonder what led the girl to lie.

Not in today’s environment. She’ll be labeled a hero for ‘breaking’ the story even though it turned out not to be true.

She oh sooooo wanted it to be true, tho!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
New poster here.

Why can’t it have been an honest mistake, and in that case, why punish the reporter unduly? This episode will be in her history anyway, so her future career prospects are tainted.

I wonder what led the girl to lie.

Learned hatred of white people. She's 12. She didn't come up with this on her own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Why blame her? Do you think she was in on it? If not, she was as duped as the rest of us.

You're ridiculous.

It was her f#cking job to verify facts before misleading the whole country and defame some minors and that school.

This.

Did she talk to other sources? Did she verify the story? That is a journalist’s job.

Otherwise, she’s just writing opinion pieces and should make that clear.

IMO, this is a big problem in journalism right now.

-Not the OP

She DID verify the story. The girl TOLD HER this happened. That's called firsthand sourcing, for those of you who aren't journalists.

She got confirmation from the school that they are looking into it.

She got confirmation from the Fairfax Police Dept that they are indeed investigating.


At this point, she has done her due diligence as a reporter. She can now report that this girl tells her that this happened, and the school and police confirm they are investigating it.




That's the story. An allegation that _____ happened. Here's a soundbite of the victim interview to listen to yourself. Here's the soundbite of the school saying they're investigating it. Here's the police spokesperson saying they're investigating it. That's a story. That's how it works.

The fact that the "victim" lied about the whole thing is something that is impossible for anyone, including the girl's grandparents and the reporter, to know until a thorough investigation is done by police.

Are any of you journalists? Either by training or practicing? I'm guessing no. Because if you were, you'd understand how this can happen.

And for those of you who are not, are you parents? Because if you are I ask you this: what would be your default condition - your very first instinct - if your child came to you with a story about _____ happening to them? A situation where your kid was claiming to be attacked and victimized?

Would your first instinct be to assume your kid is lying about the whole thing?

Or would you believe your kid?





We just had a national argument this spring about whether victims are to be believed or not when they say that 35 years ago a Supreme Court nominee acted like a cad. There were choruses of people on this very site crowing about how women MUST be believed, no matter what. On the heels of the MeToo movement, where WOMEN MUST BE BELIEVED!!!!!

So now, with this case, with hindsight being perfect, now we have the same idiot DCUM people here screaming "the reporter SHOULDN'T have believed her..... until the investigation was over".


Utter nonsense. Sheer, unbridled hypocrisy.


I almost never underestimate the stupidity of the DCUM crowd when it comes to .... well, anything. If there's anything I've learned in the years of observing this forum, it's that the people here who think they're the smartest ones in the room are usually the biggest idiots. So I'm almost never surprised by how dumb people here can be. Almost..... never.


Today is one of those times where I DID overestimate DCUM.


Live and learn. You folks are even stupider than previously thought.

Hi Mikea.

I'm not Mikea.

I'm a 47 year old white male libertarian Trump supporter who has a general disdain for the media.

And yet, I feel compelled to defend this reporter, because it's the right thing to do.


I also noticed none of you cowards had the courage to answer my non-rhetorical question of whether you'd believe your own children. Every one of you conveniently neglected to say what you'd do in that scenario.

DP

I’ll respond to that.

There was a horrific rape case last school year at Damascus HS in MoCo. The poor victim did approach his dad and the dad contacted the coach and other school admin to try and figure out what happened and what the whole story was.

Most parents will ask some questions and find out what’s going on. Yes, the first instinct is to believe your kid. But I’m guessing that this girl has a history of some issues.

The first instinct is not to do interviews and get national media coverage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
New poster here.

Why can’t it have been an honest mistake, and in that case, why punish the reporter unduly?

Because this forum is FILLED with woke white people who wanted desperately for this story to be true.

When it wasn't, they were enraged. But they couldn't bring themselves to direct that anger at the little monster who started it, so instead they direct their rage at a reporter. Because they NEED to hate someone. If it can't be three white boys, then the reporter will have to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
New poster here.

Why can’t it have been an honest mistake, and in that case, why punish the reporter unduly? This episode will be in her history anyway, so her future career prospects are tainted.

I wonder what led the girl to lie.

Learned hatred of white people. She's 12. She didn't come up with this on her own.

Yes to this. I was approached by a squeegee boy on Sunday when in Baltimore. I told him I wasn't interested in having my windows cleaned and he came up to me (maybe he was 12), looked me in the eyes and asked me why I hated black people. I asked him what made you think I hate black people, just because I am white? And he said yes, so sad. This is a child who has been schooled in hate by his own family/society/whatever. Broke my heart. I understand his home circumstances must be desperate from him to be out there, or maybe he was just looking for money, I don't know and can't pretend to get inside that little boy's mind. While he stared at me at told him he did not know my story and had to explain that to him. Obviously it was a quick exchange since we were at a traffic light but he had no way of knowing that my husband is black.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why blame her? Do you think she was in on it? If not, she was as duped as the rest of us.

You're ridiculous.

It was her f#cking job to verify facts before misleading the whole country and defame some minors and that school.

This.

Did she talk to other sources? Did she verify the story? That is a journalist’s job.

Otherwise, she’s just writing opinion pieces and should make that clear.

IMO, this is a big problem in journalism right now.

-Not the OP

She DID verify the story. The girl TOLD HER this happened. That's called firsthand sourcing, for those of you who aren't journalists.

She got confirmation from the school that they are looking into it.

She got confirmation from the Fairfax Police Dept that they are indeed investigating.


At this point, she has done her due diligence as a reporter. She can now report that this girl tells her that this happened, and the school and police confirm they are investigating it.




That's the story. An allegation that _____ happened. Here's a soundbite of the victim interview to listen to yourself. Here's the soundbite of the school saying they're investigating it. Here's the police spokesperson saying they're investigating it. That's a story. That's how it works.

The fact that the "victim" lied about the whole thing is something that is impossible for anyone, including the girl's grandparents and the reporter, to know until a thorough investigation is done by police.

Are any of you journalists? Either by training or practicing? I'm guessing no. Because if you were, you'd understand how this can happen.

And for those of you who are not, are you parents? Because if you are I ask you this: what would be your default condition - your very first instinct - if your child came to you with a story about _____ happening to them? A situation where your kid was claiming to be attacked and victimized?

Would your first instinct be to assume your kid is lying about the whole thing?

Or would you believe your kid?





We just had a national argument this spring about whether victims are to be believed or not when they say that 35 years ago a Supreme Court nominee acted like a cad. There were choruses of people on this very site crowing about how women MUST be believed, no matter what. On the heels of the MeToo movement, where WOMEN MUST BE BELIEVED!!!!!

So now, with this case, with hindsight being perfect, now we have the same idiot DCUM people here screaming "the reporter SHOULDN'T have believed her..... until the investigation was over".


Utter nonsense. Sheer, unbridled hypocrisy.


I almost never underestimate the stupidity of the DCUM crowd when it comes to .... well, anything. If there's anything I've learned in the years of observing this forum, it's that the people here who think they're the smartest ones in the room are usually the biggest idiots. So I'm almost never surprised by how dumb people here can be. Almost..... never.


Today is one of those times where I DID overestimate DCUM.


Live and learn. You folks are even stupider than previously thought.

Hi Mikea.

I'm not Mikea.

I'm a 47 year old white male libertarian Trump supporter who has a general disdain for the media.

And yet, I feel compelled to defend this reporter, because it's the right thing to do.


I also noticed none of you cowards had the courage to answer my non-rhetorical question of whether you'd believe your own children. Every one of you conveniently neglected to say what you'd do in that scenario.

DP

I’ll respond to that.

There was a horrific rape case last school year at Damascus HS in MoCo. The poor victim did approach his dad and the dad contacted the coach and other school admin to try and figure out what happened and what the whole story was.

Most parents will ask some questions and find out what’s going on. Yes, the first instinct is to believe your kid. But I’m guessing that this girl has a history of some issues.

The first instinct is not to do interviews and get national media coverage.

Unless you have an agenda, then you run to the media.

[Anonymous]

Run TO the media.

The reporter didn't chase this girl down and beg for this story. The grandparents called the reporter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
New poster here.

Why can’t it have been an honest mistake, and in that case, why punish the reporter unduly? This episode will be in her history anyway, so her future career prospects are tainted.

I wonder what led the girl to lie.

Not in today’s environment. She’ll be labeled a hero for ‘breaking’ the story even though it turned out not to be true.

She oh sooooo wanted it to be true, tho!

So did all the liberals on this forum. You should've read what they were all saying about those boys last weekend before all the posts got erased. They'd already made their minds up. It was the Covington schoolboys all over again. Racist this, white supremacist that. Hate hate hate. Most people here believed it without any question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those discounting this: a random 11-year-old girl's lie made it from agenda-driven Mikea Turner's exclusive interview on a.m. local news -- to the cover of The New York Times, 6PM national broadcast news (20M viewers), and CNN -- while also looping in the vice president of the United States, all in less than 12 hours. Days later it was proven to be a completely fabricated hoax. Freaking incredible. Now all the reporters, editors and producers who pushed it quietly scrub their contributions and act like it never happened. This should immediately be a case study at every journalism and communications department in the US.

+1 million

+2 million

The US media, from being a worldwide model of objectivity and quality, is becoming a global laughing stock.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
New poster here.

Why can’t it have been an honest mistake, and in that case, why punish the reporter unduly? This episode will be in her history anyway, so her future career prospects are tainted.

I wonder what led the girl to lie.

Adding to my own post... is this because the boys actually did tease her, and from there it was a tempting and easy step to say they cut off a bit of her hair?
And then the reporter really wanted it to be true, and ran with the story, and the media picked it up because it's the kind of race-based oppression story that generates views?

Anyway. I don't agree with the very angry posters on this thread. Let this die down of its own accord, let's not punish unduly.