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:: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 ::
The ol’ “Cry Fire in a Crowded Theater” Spin, or Down Periscope at NEWSWEEK
We did it because we were told by anonymous “knowledgeable” reliable sources that there was a fire.
Well, it was only one source. But we checked it out with two others.
Well, one said a peripheral part of the story was wrong, but didn’t “dispute” the rest; the third “corroborative” source had no comment.
Well, since the Fire Department insists it can’t find any fire and our main source now says: hey, maybe the fire was in another building maybe, there seems to be a lot of brouhaha.
So, in view of this “understandable” situation, we regret that we got “any part of our fire warning wrong.” And we “extend our sympathies to victims” of the stampede from the theater which we frankly were amazed to see occur.
And now, in view of the testy attitude of Fire Department officials, we retract what we did. So, let's put it behind us, OK?
Note: It is worth mentioning that some people in the media (not us because we apologized and retracted) think that what we did was really in the tradition of great investigative journalism and that even though the facts were phony they are probably true.
:: James Baar 5/17/2005 02:19:00 PM [+] ::
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