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UPDATE: The Media Echo Chamber |
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The New York Times is reporting on the accusations and following media circus that surround the inital report that Barack Obama attended a madrassa as a boy. Click here to read the full article (free sign up required).
With unnamed sources, non-professional Internet-based news outlets, and freelance writers paid per article, it's easy to see how these false stories can appear real. However, my point still stands in that a thoughtful reader would make his or her own decisions on the truthfulness of these reports, and then ask the right questions: Even if Obama attended a madrassa for a brief period when he was 6 years old, what does that have anything to do with his presidential candidacy? (Madrassas don't really produce terrorists, so some say.)
