Fantasists? Yes a word I made up myself. That's what many journalists do too. Make things up themselves or add to them.
Did you see that item on Urk? Where a group of people broke into a Moroccan man's house? They scanned 'Geertje Wilders' in the process.
According to the AD
Who had posted a video of the incident, only it wasn't a video of the incident at all. It was from something completely different. From years before
The Telegraph, of course, immediately picked up that item as well and before you know it, it goes viral.
Well, I had the same thing with a piece a few weeks ago. Piece about losing weight, which because of the headline to some people, went down the wrong way. It appeared in the Noord Hollands Dagblad, then in the Telegraaf and last week I saw it in the Grazia.
You know that phenomenon of that sentence in class? The one that goes from one to another and at the end that sentence is twisted?
That is.
Did the journalist ever call me? Hearsay, right? Well no.
It's all about scoring, newspaper sales and the truth? What do you care. Scoring and selling good headlines.
This is reality, unfortunately.
Finding out the truth takes longer, is difficult, you have to call people and that takes time. Time you often don't get from a newspaper. I understand, but then just say in your piece that you don't know. But then again, nobody does.
In Australia, it was even worse. There the interviewer (Jim Jefferies) just went and cut and pasted it so that you came out looking like a terrible person. The greatest racist of all time, for example.
Fortunately, someone also filmed the interview and put that footage on youtube. There you can see exactly what the difference is.
Anyway, you might have known, of course, said van der Laan and Woe in their hilarious program last Saturday.
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