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2016 Postmortem

egbertowillies

(4,058 posts) Thu Nov 13, 2014, 09:36 PM Nov 2014

Jon Stewart calls out media for falsely accusing Minnesota Mayor of posing gang members/signs

Jon Stewart got to the core of what should be an embarrassing moment in journalism displayed by Minnesota TV station KTSP. When the story first appeared on the DailyKOS, one could not help but believe it was a joke. It started off a social media storm with its own hashtag, #pointergate.
http://egbertowillies.com/2014/11/13/jon-stewart-mayor-gang-sign-police-media/