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brettdale

(12,384 posts) Fri Dec 29, 2017, 12:59 AM Dec 2017

So a Major Left wing Journo tweets out hes cutting vaction short

Tune into see at 10pm, and the actual story is nothing.

What a click baiting, ****

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So a Major Left wing Journo tweets out hes cutting vaction short (Original Post) brettdale Dec 2017 OP

Something in me wants to believe there is more to this maybe a dry run but yeah uponit7771 Dec 2017 #1

sounds like fake news nt msongs Dec 2017 #2

An announcement about how much had been raised for his charity The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2017 #3

I Deleted My Post He Was Announcing Getting Married, Grassy Knoll Dec 2017 #4

I took the bait. FarPoint Dec 2017 #5

"We have his tax returns!" shanny Dec 2017 #6

I was 99% sure that nothing of significance was going to be released last night Lurks Often Dec 2017 #7

Exactly dalton99a Dec 2017 #13

So Lawrence O'Donnell is now suspect? PJMcK Dec 2017 #8

Exactly.. HipChick Dec 2017 #9

But without criticizing good deeds, we're unable to feel as clever about ourselves. LanternWaste Dec 2017 #10

The unexpected NYTimes interview took the top slot last night, at the last minute... FreepFryer Dec 2017 #11

Did the channel push it as "breaking news"? Or were you just overinterpreting a tweet? muriel_volestrangler Dec 2017 #12

uponit7771

(90,364 posts)

1. Something in me wants to believe there is more to this maybe a dry run but yeah

Reply to brettdale (Original post)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 01:04 AM

Dec 2017

.. clickbait

msongs

(67,453 posts)

2. sounds like fake news nt

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Fri Dec 29, 2017, 01:06 AM

Dec 2017

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,869 posts)

3. An announcement about how much had been raised for his charity

Reply to brettdale (Original post)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 01:08 AM

Dec 2017

to buy desks for kids in Africa. Nice but hardly earth-shattering news that couldn't wait until a regular broadcast.

Grassy Knoll

(10,118 posts)

4. I Deleted My Post He Was Announcing Getting Married,

Reply to brettdale (Original post)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 01:10 AM

Dec 2017

..Which Would Have Been A Better Reason.

FarPoint

(12,447 posts)

5. I took the bait.

Reply to brettdale (Original post)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 07:07 AM

Dec 2017

Read it here on DU....ended up watching and indeed... misleading.

shanny

(6,709 posts)

6. "We have his tax returns!"

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Fri Dec 29, 2017, 08:09 AM

Dec 2017

Lurks Often

(5,455 posts)

7. I was 99% sure that nothing of significance was going to be released last night

Reply to brettdale (Original post)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 08:32 AM

Dec 2017

What station or media personality is really going to wait until 10:30 pm to release a major story unless it just happened?

dalton99a

(81,599 posts)

13. Exactly

Reply to Lurks Often (Reply #7)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 01:11 PM

Dec 2017

PJMcK

(22,052 posts)

8. So Lawrence O'Donnell is now suspect?

Reply to brettdale (Original post)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 10:11 AM

Dec 2017

Geez. If I had a charity that raised $16 million, I'd scream it from the rooftops. It's a laudable achievement that will do great good for those in need.

Does everything have to be about Trump?

Maybe some of us need to take a break from politics for a couple of days.

HipChick

(25,485 posts)

9. Exactly..

Reply to PJMcK (Reply #8)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 10:22 AM

Dec 2017

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)

10. But without criticizing good deeds, we're unable to feel as clever about ourselves.

Reply to PJMcK (Reply #8)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 11:04 AM

Dec 2017

But without criticizing those good deeds we've never achieved ourselves, we're unable to feel as clever about ourselves.

FreepFryer

(7,077 posts)

11. The unexpected NYTimes interview took the top slot last night, at the last minute...

Reply to brettdale (Original post)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 11:07 AM

Dec 2017

...we'll see what happens...

muriel_volestrangler

(101,368 posts)

12. Did the channel push it as "breaking news"? Or were you just overinterpreting a tweet?

Reply to brettdale (Original post)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 01:09 PM

Dec 2017

Going from the tweet alone, you'd expect that it was not about political news, and that it was something personally involving O'Donnell - since he was not working, but if the journalists who were had some scoop, they'd run with it at once, rather than wait for the regularly scheduled guy to call in to talk about it.

So, was your disappointment based just on one tweet?

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