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But “he should not have gotten into the summer program,” Jacobson said. “His grades were mediocre. I’ve heard him described as brilliant. This is extremely inaccurate.”
"Westview, at the time, was doing alternative schooling," Lewis said. "The grades were less forgiving. There were standards -- or criteria -- for each class that each student was expected to meet. There was a lot of pressure to pass. No one wanted to have to take a class over again."
Originally posted by ZiggyMojo
reply to post by longlostbrother
Several media sources removed it. I noticed it first on Christian Post and MSNBC because that was where I was first linked to and tried to use as a source again a few days later. I then noticed that several others had done the same thing when I started searching for a credible source to show that it was reported that he had two roommates.
To my dismay I couldn't even provide a link to a person asking for the article that originally reported it because they had all removed it without any explanation. That's a problem.
Originally posted by ZiggyMojo
reply to post by longlostbrother
What is even more alarming is that as this gets worse, so does the control over public opinion. We all know how easily the masses are influenced by the media. This opens so many doors down a hallway we will have an extremely hard time coming back from. When they can easily manipulate the public, they can easily control them.edit on 25-7-2012 by ZiggyMojo because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by cheezydik
reply to post by longlostbrother
You haven't been paying attention. Just because one news organization silently updates their story to remove a piece of information that might not be factual doesn't mean that every other news organization out there follows suit. If they all did that then we would never get any actual news because they'd be too busy going back to already published stories and scrubbing them. When a piece of information just vanishes from existence within a few days from all the MSM sources and not one of them posts a retraction, that's no reason to raise suspicion?
Going back to your example from the AP corrections page on incorrectly reporting what his school presentation was back in May. If I Google "Aurora Micro DNA Biomarkings" (the false presentation topic) I still get tons of news articles from MSM sources that have not been edited to remove that false piece of information. Fact is, it is much easier to post a retraction than it is to go back to all the places where that bad piece of information existed and remove it like it was never there to begin with. Especially when it is something insignificant like the subject of his last college presentation.