Random News on line needs checking by us

[roadman65]

Recently a random news feed had a death of a Hollywood star who died over three years ago as recent news.   Yet no one until I shared here pointed out the truth.

[KeithE4Phx]

Huh?!?!?!?  Mahoney died on February 4, 2018.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001498/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

[roadman65]

What the hell is this world coming too. I got it on random news event in social media.

Another reason why I don't trust the news.  Here posting old news.  I had no freaking clue the man was dead, and people on social media posting the old news.


If it were the Goog I would check dates, but this on social media thrown in.

[roadman65]

The damn thing won't let me remove either.
  I updated to new title and article instead. Hopefully it won't turn into the ongoing great political debate being the words fact check are used.

[kalvado]

Once you grow up, you may realize that official information is not bulletproof as well...

[roadman65]

Once you grow up, you may realize that official information is not bulletproof as well...

So I noticed.  That is why the net can be deadly too.

[kalvado]

Once you grow up, you may realize that official information is not bulletproof as well...

So I noticed.  That is why the net can be deadly too.

It is not about net. It is about people - even elected or appointed officials, who are still humans after all - being lost, having incomplete information, or plainly lying (or, worse, partially withholding information) to match their agenda. 

[formulanone]

What the hell is this world coming too. I got it on random news event in social media.

Another reason why I don't trust the news.

You're blaming "the media", when you received the info from your social media network. Either the information came from another human in your network who just found that information out, or some algorithm spit it out based on...well, whatever it felt like churning out due to whatever it saw as a preference in your social media feed.

It's okay to take some "responsibility" on this one, not everyone remembers everything about everything, but I see no reason to flip out over it. It's not someone else's fault that you just learned about another actor's passing which happened three years ago. You were probably busy or took a day off from hearing about everything happening that day and lived your own life.

[hbelkins]

Had an interesting road-related thing happen to me along these lines last week.

Perusing last week's community newspapers in our area, I saw a press release I had sent out a year ago concerning a railroad crossing closure for repair/replacement work. Why the newspaper ran the release a full year later is beyond me. I certainly didn't do anything to trigger sending out another copy 12 months later. I even had a request from the newspaper where the closing happened to send them the release, since they had seen it in the adjoining county's paper and they hadn't gotten a copy. I explained to them that it was an old release from last year that had, for some reason, been printed by mistake.

In that same newspaper, they ran an outdated press release about a road closure that had been changed twice since the first copy went out. We had a closure scheduled for a certain day, but it got postponed, so i sent a release about the postponement. Then, when the new date was set, I sent that release out too. The paper had ample time to get the latest release but ran the first one with the old date.

On social media, i will occasionally see something reposted about an event that happened in a prior year. It's probably someone's Facebook memory being posted and shared.