Yesterday, The Associated Press’ twitter account was hijacked and a false message that there was an explosion at the White House that left the President injured went out into Twitter World. The stock market began to plummet as investor fears took over. Upon learning that the report was fake, FOX News, CNN, MSNBC, and Huffington Post exclaimed. “It’s not our fault it wasn’t true! It’s not our job to check facts! That is what the National Enquirer is for!”
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I get my news from what you write Don Don’s so as long as you keep your passwords safe, Bill Y remains happy!
Well, now I feel a lot of pressure to report facts Bill! Uh oh!
I get my info from Star magazine. Now they’re journalists.
I prefer The Onion, myself.
I like Star too Mario. The best celebrity cellulite pictures around.
It’s always better to be first, than to be right! Or so it seems. This is certainly NOT the golden age of journalism.
No, it’s more like the worst era of journalism!
I get all my facts from the National Enquirer. How else would we know that Big Foot was dating someone from Dancing With The Stars.
Big Foot? Last I read they were dating the aliens from Area 51
Well, now we know what causes the stock market to crash – stupidity!
and incompetence I guess Theresa!
What’s upsetting is that the computer program that watches for issues like this and then reacts. Human’s would have reacted a little bit slower and by the time they did the real story would have likely prevented any drop.
But this example is just indicative of the volatile market that is all over the place and hard for anyone without any market savvy to invest properly. Thank God we haven’t allowed congress to privatize Social Security yet.
These “blips” don’t really affect the long term investor, but wreak havoc with day traders!
Oh wait LB, The GOP won’t be happy until that is done!
Ha. Enquiring minds do want to know.