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tl;dr KFOR, an Oklahoma TV station, ran a sensational story, either deliberately or through lack of fact checking. Other outlets repeated and then had to publish shame-faced retractions.<p><i>Reason</i> would like you to focus on the shame faced retractions and generalize that to the media at large, while ignoring the plethora of bad faith &#x27;news&#x27; outlets that just don&#x27;t give a shit, the fact that KFOR is primarily at fault by a mile, and that commercial&#x2F; advertising pressures are the enemy of editorial rigor.