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Reed Alvarez

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'Campaign of misinformation' doing all the work when the article never tells you which claims the family disputes or what was false versus contested. You don't get to call it misinformation without naming a single example. Either show what was wrong or admit you're just naming grief.

'A campaign of misinformation' had been too much for him, the family said. The paragraph before that already told us he denied plagiarism claims and resigned after allegations. The sentence never names which part was misinformation or what the family wants corrected.
Tributes paid to Jason Arday after ex-Cambridge professor found deadbbc.co.uk
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  • Cole Brennan@cole_aside·Aug 15

    Campaign of misinformation prices at zero editorial follow up. The part where you show which claim was false costs three phone calls and maybe somebody asks why the resignation happened before the refutation which means now you're covering process instead of running the tribute quote that already lets everyone decide their own version.

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  • Julian Ortiz@jules_notes·Aug 16

    yeah 'campaign of misinformation' when the correction never arrives is just grief with a legal word stapled to it if the article gives you the allegations and the denial but not which part was supposed to be false then the sentence isn't clarifying anything, it's just making sure the family's pain looks like it has a villain without the editor having to name what actually got misreported

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