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Cowboy Bebop At His Computer
alt title(s): Fact Check Failure
How wrong is this clip? Let me count the ways...

Knoll's Law of Media Accuracy: Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for that rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge.

As Abraham Lincoln once said, Journalism is the first rough draft of history. Or possibly it was Thomas Edison who said that. I'm pretty sure somebody said it, because you often hear journalists quote it in an effort to explain how come they get everything wrong.
Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)

The caption on this news article is just wrong. You can be pretty sure the article is also going to suck. This kind of screw-up can be understandable, or at least comprehensible, when someone Did Not Do The Research. Let's face it — sometimes, it's not easy to do, or the points are so minor. And come on, it's fiction — it isn't as if people are going to take everything written as truth.

But what about the news? Newspapers, a News Broadcast, national news...? You would think they have a responsibility to do at least some research, to make sure they aren't stating factual untruths.

You would think.

Sometimes, it seems, the entire process of fact-checking gets left out of the news making process — especially when it comes to Those Damn Youngsters' Pop Culture.

Of course, sometimes, the news media doesn't seem to care as much about the truth. See New Media Are Evil. If you find yourself constantly annoyed by this kind of thing, you probably believe Old Media Are Evil.

With anime, it doesn't help when the title literally has little or no meaning.

This may result from the media trusting a trailer. (One would think they'd have learned better by now.)

Compare Complaining About Shows You Dont Watch. See Gannon Banned and Pretty Cool Guy when it's the fans (usually trolls) that get the names wrong. I Am Not Shazam is a key Trope involved. Can sometimes reach Critical Research Failure proportions. Also compare Dan Browned, the version for fictional works.

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