At least the BBC and most other outlets have now corrected the story. As of 09.20 this morning, the original Mail report that Jonathan has died is still up.
I can understand how people online were taken in by this but I find it astonishing that mainstream media outlets would post a story like this on the basis of a single X post with no other verification. If you took a look at the X account, it wasn't difficult to work out that it was clearly dodgy. Whatever happened to proper journalism and checking sources?
I remember seeing this interview on GBNews and it's good to be able to see it again. It's a shame about the circumstances. The BBC has gone from sharing 'news' from a genocidal terrorist group all around the world as if it were true - with genuine, serious geo-political repercussions - to spreading the word of a conman. Next, Comic Relief will be hosted by a Nigerian prince. How low the mighty have fallen. Esther Rantzen would be turning in her grave (if she wasn't very much still alive, as well).
The BBC cut the number of its news journalists, apparently, in order to establish BBC Verify. It would have taken one phone call to prove this story wrong. SMFH.
Fascinating and great to hear he is still with us. I saw a YouTube video about a Greenland Shark which was estimated to be 400 years old, mind boggling.
I hadn't heard the story but I'm glad it proved false ! Shame on the " news " outlets who don't bother to check the facts before printing fake news as " truth " I hope Jonathon outlives this bonkers woke experiment and everybody currently alive on this planet ( that m8ght take another 100 years !!🤮😭🙏
Most news sounds like fake stories. After I was told several times that I am laughing at ‘serious matters’ I’ve got to the point that when someone tells me something I ask if it is serious or I am supposed to laugh at this.
At least the BBC and most other outlets have now corrected the story. As of 09.20 this morning, the original Mail report that Jonathan has died is still up.
I can understand how people online were taken in by this but I find it astonishing that mainstream media outlets would post a story like this on the basis of a single X post with no other verification. If you took a look at the X account, it wasn't difficult to work out that it was clearly dodgy. Whatever happened to proper journalism and checking sources?
I remember seeing this interview on GBNews and it's good to be able to see it again. It's a shame about the circumstances. The BBC has gone from sharing 'news' from a genocidal terrorist group all around the world as if it were true - with genuine, serious geo-political repercussions - to spreading the word of a conman. Next, Comic Relief will be hosted by a Nigerian prince. How low the mighty have fallen. Esther Rantzen would be turning in her grave (if she wasn't very much still alive, as well).
The BBC cut the number of its news journalists, apparently, in order to establish BBC Verify. It would have taken one phone call to prove this story wrong. SMFH.
Fascinating and great to hear he is still with us. I saw a YouTube video about a Greenland Shark which was estimated to be 400 years old, mind boggling.
I hadn't heard the story but I'm glad it proved false ! Shame on the " news " outlets who don't bother to check the facts before printing fake news as " truth " I hope Jonathon outlives this bonkers woke experiment and everybody currently alive on this planet ( that m8ght take another 100 years !!🤮😭🙏
Where was BBC Verify?
Too busy hunting out instances of misgendering and Islamophobia.
For BBC Verify this would have been low hanging fruit. Ironically, just the sort of thing Jonathan loves.
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Most news sounds like fake stories. After I was told several times that I am laughing at ‘serious matters’ I’ve got to the point that when someone tells me something I ask if it is serious or I am supposed to laugh at this.