Has The Pirate Bay Lost Its Appeal... Or Should We Not Trust The NY Times?
from the fact-checking? dept
Someone just alerted me to a NY Times story claiming that the guys behind The Pirate Bay have lost their appeal of the verdict that found them guilty. That would be big news (and it may very well happen). However, I can't find anything else to support it. The NY Times credits the Hollywood Reporter, whose only recent article I can find on the subject merely claims that the TPB guys failed to get the case thrown out. But digging deeper, the only information I can find is that the District Court, which made the original ruling has told the Appeals Court that there was no bias. That's not surprising -- of course the District Court is going to say it wasn't biased and that its judge wasn't biased. But I haven't seen anything that says the Appeals Court has ruled one way or the other on the issue. It looks like the reporters at The Hollywood Reporter and the NY Times may have gotten confused about the difference between the District Court and the Appeals Court -- and assumed that because the District Court claimed the judge wasn't biased, the Appeals Court had ruled that way. Now, it may well come to pass that the Appeals Court does rule that way, but I haven't seen any reports of that yet, and given how news has spread about this case, you would think such reports would have been out there.But, you know, it's the professional reporters at the NY Times who fact check stuff. We bloggers just make up innuendo and rumor. Surely, they couldn't have gotten the story wrong, right?
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not like that has ever happened before
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Yes, someone has to have the story first, but others would have it soon after. No one else seems to be mentioning it -- including the TPB folks.
Furthermore, the NYT piece credits the THR piece, but that article (from yesterday morning) does not appear to be accurate either.
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Major News Providers: 90% fact (good accuracy) + 10% commentary (except in the case of FOX where it is 25:75).
Blogs: 5% fact (fair accuracy) + 95% commentary.
Sometime commentaries posted on the major news websites are confused for facts and that is quite disturbing!! (Eg: http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/an-innocent-abroad/?scp=1&sq=foxy%20knoxy&st=cse ).
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i2976b9e446efa135e830334d65e3 cca5
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I think it's a case of the supposedly "professional" reporters at the NYT and THR getting the story wrong.
Perhaps there's new info on the story, but I'm not seeing ANYTHING out of any Swedish sources.
It feels like a big game of "telephone" where THR misread the story from Monday in Sweden and then the NYT misread the THR story.
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So Good...
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Re: So Good...
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You are correct NY times has not checked thier sources.
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RE: You are correct NY times has not checked thier sources
http://www.thelocal.se/piratebay/
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Why do we have to choose? Can't both be true?
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and I thought MSM was doing it all by themselves.
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Now where's that bug spray?
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NY Times = Pravda
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In his defense
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They seem to take him seriously enough to pay for his stuff and publish it.
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Lost it's appeal?
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Bigger they are, the more they are wrong
It's bad when a place called "The Pirate Bay" is more truthful and upstanding than a major national newspaper.
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C'mon, the NY Times wrong...again?
To think that the NY times, which coincidentally is virtually bankrupt (lousy business plan) would get a story completely wrong.
So, if your product (news and information) is suspect, why would anyone believe their spin, er reporting?
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Trust the NYT?
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Went to the pirate bay and ....
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Anyone know what it is?
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Re: Went to the pirate bay and ....
http://thepiratebay.org/blog/155
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Re: Went to the pirate bay and ....
Who ever is running your DNS service seems to have redirected you someplace. Check with them.
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When the Appeals Court makes it decision I'm sure we will see lots of news about it.
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NYT Still Wrong (3 Days Later)
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/25575/1239/
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Re: NYT Still Wrong (3 Days Later)
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/25575/1239/
Nope. That IT Wire report gets it wrong too. It's confusing the district court, who claims that judge wasn't biased, with the appeals court, who needs to rule on it. That part of the argument has NOT failed yet. The appeals court simply has not ruled on it.
The district court gave its opinion to the appeals court, and the appeals court is still considering the matter.
Saying that that part of the appeal "failed" is flat out incorrect.
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When the Appeals Court makes it decision I'm sure we will see lots of news about it.
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it's fixed now
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Re: it's fixed now
"This article has been corrected. The earlier version stated that the appeal had been denied."
Fewer words. Much better.
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