<story><title>Almost Nothing About the ‘Apple Harvests Gold from iPhones’ Story Is True</title><url>http://motherboard.vice.com/read/apple-does-not-melt-iphones-into-gold</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>c3534l</author><text>What does it say about the world we live in where blogs do more basic journalism than CNN? All that one would have had to do is read the report actually provided.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think I&amp;#x27;m being too extreme when I say that, apart from maybe PBS, there is no reputable source of news in America. If you don&amp;#x27;t believe me, pick a random story, watch it as it gets rewritten a million times through Reuters, then check back on the facts of the story one year later. A news story gets twisted to promote some narrative that will sell papers, and when the facts of the story are finally verified (usually not by the news themselves, but lawyers or courts or whoever), the story is dropped and never reported on again.&lt;p&gt;Again, if the only thing a reporter had to do was read the report to find the facts of the case to verify what is and isn&amp;#x27;t true, what the fuck is even the point of a news agency?</text></comment>
<story><title>Almost Nothing About the ‘Apple Harvests Gold from iPhones’ Story Is True</title><url>http://motherboard.vice.com/read/apple-does-not-melt-iphones-into-gold</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wklauss</author><text>These kind of stories are useful to understand to what extent the media has turned into an echo chamber. Everybody has to have (or comment on) the same stories than everybody else has, so fast copying (with or without attribution) has become a de-facto practice in every news outlet out there.&lt;p&gt;Good for Motherboard to wait and check. Unfortunately this means we will see this article now in all the outlets that published the previous one with a hand-washing disclaimer (&amp;quot;remember that article SOMEONE ELSE wrote that we talked you about last week, well...&amp;quot;)</text></comment>