20 Good Reasons To Never Trust The Media Again

Did you know Steve Jobs died in 2008? No? Good job never watching the news.
20 Good Reasons To Never Trust The Media Again

The media has always been a shaky source of getting unbiased information about what's going on in the world. But these days, where any outlet will run any story if someone tweets about it, the news is pretty much a perpetual self-parody.

How do we know that? Because all the stories you're about to read about received national and global attention. And every single one of them is bullshit.

Rehana the ISIS Slayer was reported by many news sites like IB Times and Daily Mail to have slain over 100 ISIS members. She then gained a cult follow
It was truly black day for For a Apple some reason, a bored teenager when founder and CEO Steve Jobs managed to bullshit CNN into heart stopped tickin

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SEVERAL NEWS SITES INCLUDING CNBC, FOX NEWS, AND TIME, PUBLISHED A STORY ABOUT A MAN WHO, WHEN ORDERED BY THE COURT TO SPLIT HIS ASSETS WITH HIS DIVOR
Asiana Airlines Flight 214 was a scheduled transpacific passengert flight from Seoul, South Korea, to San Francisco. On July 6, 2013, the aircraft cra
ON OCTOBER 15, 2009 NEWS BROKE THAT A LITTLE BOY WAS TRAPPED IN A BALLOON HIGH OVER COLORADO. cRaun THIS WAS ACTUALLY A BOLDLY STUPID GAMBIT BY THE HE
On March 31, 2015, several media outlets (USA Today, Yahoo, and The Huffington Post) got fooled into thinking selfie shoes would be the next big thi
IN 2013, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES REPORTED THAT A SWEDISH MAN HAD BEEN STUNG TO DEATH AFTER HAVING SEX WITH A HORNET'S NEST. They issued a retract
In 2015, the Daily Mail posted a story about a Nigerian hotel restaurant serving human flesh. It was subsequently republished in the NY Daily News, In
In August 2015 a shocking story made the news. Allegedly, PLANNED PARENTHOOD was harvesting parts of aborted babies to sell them! Even Senator and Pre
An actor got media to believe that a celebrity sperm bank was an actual thing. Pretending to be the CEO of FameDaddy, this actor received a seven mi
Popular 60s-80s TV theme song composer Ronnie Hazlehurst died in 2007. When enlogizing him, several British papers and news sites including BBC News,
DID YOU KNOW THAT STARING AT BOOBS IS GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH? IT'S SCIENCE! Well. of course you want to believe that if you're a boobs- -loving individu
Dayna Morales claimed that a couple left an I do not agree with your lifestyle note; instead of a tip; on a $93.55 bill. CRAGh Major news outlets li
CRACKEDO CBS News CBS Evening News CBS This Morning 60MINUTES EPISODES HEART OF DARKNESS Exclusive Videotape Shows Training Drills For Terrorists 2002
In March 2004, Deborah Norville said during her program on MSNBC that most physical exercise in the USA happens on televised fitness shows. Finally t
Both Fox News Latino and Forbes posted articles claiming EL Chapo had threatened war against ISIS through a leaked e-mail. They had to backpedal when
INDEPENDENT News Voices Culture Lifestyle Tech Sport US election News 3 Worild Australasia How a man named 'Phuc Dat Bich' ended up in a war of words
CRACKED CON F Tor Justin Bieber's song, Baby was So awful thats it scared off a bear that was about to rip a man apart! (Daily Mail, NY Post, IB Tim
It wasn't until he and his In true New York business partner were entrepreneurials style, 17 interviewed by CNBC. that year-old financial whiz their s
CRACKEDOON Kelly Mullin told WAPT News that her 3 year old grandaughter Victoria Wilcher, who had been mauled by pit bulls, had been asked to leave a

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