ROFLMAO oh good lord is this really a satire of a satire???? Nope it's a serious article factchecking the Babylon Bee a SATIRE site like the Onion and a very good one. But the editor at USA Today actually assigned a report to FACTCHECK IT!!! And the reported RESEARCHED IT and actually wrote and article about it!!!! This is JOURNALISM? Not only that but she list 15 sources to back up her research Our fact-check sources: American Law Institute, accessed Sept. 27, 2020, "The Hon. Kim McLane Wardlaw" United States Courts for the Ninth Circuit, Court of Appeals, retrieved Sept. 26, 2020, "Opinions" United States Courts for the Ninth Circuit, Sept. 24, 2020, Catherine LopenaTorres v. William P. Barr USA TODAY, June 26, 2018, "Supreme Court upholds President Trump's travel ban against majority-Muslim countries" USA TODAY, July 6, 2020, "President Trump has transformed the federal courts, but John Roberts still leads them" USA TODAY, March 11, 2020, "Supreme Court allows Donald Trump's 'Return-to-Mexico' asylum policy to continue for now" USA TODAY, June 20, 2019, "Trump administration abortion rules can take effect, 9th Circuit Court says" USA TODAY, April 26, 2017, "Trump blasts 9th Circuit over immigration rulings" The White House, March 6, 2017, "Executive Order Protecting The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into The United States" The White House, Jan. 25, 2017, "Executive Order: Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States" Encyclopedia.com, accessed Sept. 27, 2020, "Richard Joseph Riordan" UCLA School of Law, Sept. 25, 2020, "Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Celebrating the Life of a Legal Giant" USA TODAY, Sept. 18, 2020, "Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Second woman on Supreme Court had been nation's leading litigator for women's rights" U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, accessed Sept. 27, 2020, "Circuit Map" U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, accessed Sept. 27, 2020, "About the Court" that "We rate this claim SATIRE, based on our research." A satirical article about the 9th Circuit "overturning" Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death has no basis in fact." Yes the satirical article in a satire publication has no basis in fact and is satire............ Wonder how much time she spent researching the fact that Ginsberg death had NOT been overturned..... And then wrote what she attempted to be a SERIOUS article about it. Oh the MSM is just too much. No wonder I stopped reading USA Today a long time ago. "Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died of metastatic pancreatic cancer Sept. 18, is actually "alive," the article suggests, because the 9th Circuit overturned her death. "In a close decision, the judges on the court have ruled RBG's death unconstitutional and will block Trump from nominating a replacement," the article says. Ninth Circuit Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw was credited with issuing the ruling on the basis that Ginsburg's death was an "affront to the (Constitution)" and the "God-given right to abort as many babies as possible and sell their body parts for research."" USA Today article here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...-circuit-overturn-ginsburgs-death/3548008001/ It's like fact checking Mad Magazine or National Lampoon......just amazing As National Review called it The Stupidest Fact-Check in the History of Fact-Checking
Great find. The last real investigative journalist working for left-slanted media outlets was Sherryl Atkinson who was fired from CBS News back during the Obama administration -- by hard core leftist and Obama sycophant and then CBS News' political director John Dickerson whom moonlighted for uber leftist Slate ezine as an editor -- for the crime of continuing to perform a serious investigation into Benghazi AFTER Barack and Hillary proclaimed that there was no THERE there and they framed a small time film producer for everything . . . and leftists and their media outlets cheered. All of those now BLATANTLY leftist loyal media outlets have been on a relentless competence, ethics, and integrity decline ever since.
The researcher seemed to rely heavily on USA Today as a source. Why didn't she just check https://babylonbee.com/about ?
That one beats mine. I wanted to stuff her and prop her up in a corner with a glass of wine until Biden was sworn in on the 20th.
Wow. Unbelievable. USA Today has always been kinda lame. Its layout always seemed to me to be inspired by the National Enquirer, and its content frequently seemed to be inspired by it as well. How this article made it to publication though is beyond my ability to imagine, but I'll give it a go. Here's a link to the cast, https://www.usatoday.com/contact/staff/ ANNAH We need one more article today Chel. CHELSEY: Ah, um, I haven't seen anything. Let me look around a little bit. ANNAH: No problem, find something! We need it by noon tomorrow, ok? CHELSEY: Ok, I'll find something. Gets up from her desk in disgust. Walks into the kitchen for another cup of coffee. Her partner is watching a game. I am so sick of Ann's sh_t. She's done it to me again! Making me find an article to fact check on top of doing the fact check! PARTNER: Ugh, again? You should fact check an article from the Onion and see if that lazy bitch publishes it! Hey can you toss me a cold one from the fridge please? CHELSEY: laughs, Yeah, I should do that. Tosses him a beer from the fridge. There's no way she's that lazy. PARTNER: Sure she is. How many times have you asked her to add the second syllable to your name? Hell, even family doesn't call you Chel. Oh, no wait. Grabs his iPad and looks up his buddies post from the Babylon Bee. Gets up and shows it to Chelsey. You should do a fact check on this! CHELSEY wtf is the Babylon Bee? PARTNER Ah, I don't know, he posts sh_t from there all the time. It's like a Christian Onion, whatever that is. CHELSEY Oh god, that is classic. I'm totally going to do it. Goes back to her office and sends ANNAH this, Hey Ann, I found an article about the 9th Circuit to check! ANNAH Awesome! Thank you so much! You'll have it done by noon tomorrow, right? CHELSEY No Problem. ANNAH Ok Great, thanks again. CHELSEY Pissed off as hell goes over the top. Profiles one of the judges and the 9th Circuit and, of course, gives TRUMP some space. Then, for maximum idiocy adds 14 bullets of "fact check" items supporting her conclusion that the satire article was satire. Finishing up, she submits her work at 1pm the following day, knowing she would catch sht about it, but also knowing that Annah would use it as a bit more excuse to skip any semblance of doing her job. ANNAH I told you the deadline was noon! CHELSEY I know, I know, I'm so sorry. My cat started vomiting this morning and I've been at the vet all morning so it's been hard to get this finished. ANNAH Ah, ok, no worries, we can still get this in I think. How is burples doing? CHELSEY trying not to laugh just yet says Oh, he's doing much better, thanks Again, I'm so sorry, it won't happen again. ANNAH Ok great, thanks. McKenzie will send you a list of potential new fact check links this afternoon. Please review them and let me know which ones you think are good. CHELSEY Ok, thanks Ann.... KRISTEN Sends notice complimenting ANNAH and CHELSEY for upholding USA Today Fact Check standards. PARTNER Reads post from his FB buddy about USA Today fact checking the BB, blows beer though his nose laughing....
Back in the late 70's and early 80's when I traveled every week for business and would read the local papers I remember USA Today coming out and loved it. To be able to get a paper that wasn't 90% small local news with just a touch of national and bigger name editorial writers was great. And it kept a pretty even strain in the early years but I bet I haven't read it in a decade even the free copy the motels gave out at breakfast. What a total embarrassment for them.
