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My own hometown makes headlines, not for actual news, but for the ignorant credulity of the conspiracy-zombies, interpreting a wrong time-stamp as proof-positive of a massive conspiracy. The comments on the Facebook thread convey the eagerness of people to believe (based on almost nothing) that world news is simply a series of conspiracy theories. "Jon Manchester, the managing editor of British Columbia’s Kelowna Daily Courier, attributes the mistake to a long-standing error in the site’s time zone offsets. When the Daily Courier publishes a wire story from the AP, it automatically changes the story’s time stamp from Atlantic to Pacific time. But because the wrong time zone offset had been selected in the Daily Courier’s system, the times were wildly miscalculated -- not only on the Navy Yard story, one blogger observed, but on everything the site published from the AP. The Daily Courier fixed the time zone offset Tuesday afternoon. “It was done just to set it right, as it had been off for some time,” Manchester wrote in an e-mail. “I suppose the conspiracy theorists hounding me yesterday with phone calls prompted it.”" Un Monstruo Muy Monstruoso
Posted on: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 23:13:35 +0000

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