Wtf? Never. The correct answer is never. https://www.spin.com/2017/10/tom-petty-death-premature-reports/ …pic.twitter.com/AciwJU829v
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Wtf? Never. The correct answer is never. https://www.spin.com/2017/10/tom-petty-death-premature-reports/ …pic.twitter.com/AciwJU829v
CBS got it wrong, and that's terrible. Arguably more terrible are the sites that just ran with it as fact based on the anonymous CBS report.
Those are the sites sitting at the bottom heap of aggregation. Entirely by their own making and choice.
Because it's 2017 and yes your adrenaline was running but being first isn't worth being wrong and how are we all still not learning that.
Anyway, make yourself a mental note of the sites that didn't go with the CBS report and support them.
Anyway the spin piece is dumb
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