I'VE BEEN MEANING to write about the big f---ckup in the Daily Cal article on the Patriot-stealings. They wrote:

Some members of the staff received death threats, though that is nothing new to members of the two groups

Actually, the Patriot received no death threats this time around. They mentioned, while talking with the DC, that they received death threats during last year's Horowitz flap. Through the magic of the Daily Cal, time and space were altered and this all became present tense.

The consequence: all the news outlets who picked this up, from the Washington Times to Fox News, prominently reported the death threats. Why they don't do basic doublechecking of the reporting of a college newspaper is beyond me. Hell, the headline of the Times story is 'Berkeley conservatives tell of death threats for criticism '



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