"Rbg dead" story retracted -- faux news throwing their graphics team under the bus.

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[dweller]

1. dude

that team lives under the bus ...


✌🏼

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3. In the sewer, really.

But normally they just quietly live there. The on-air "talent" doesn't normally bash them.

[walkingman]

2. That was Bullshit - almost gave me a heart attack!

[rurallib]

4. me too -

[rurallib]

5. did Fox break this story?

Curious

[Denzil_DC]

6. It's a recurrent troll meme on Twitter (probably on facebook, too).

Fox supposedly reported her death back in January, then retracted. Certain trolls have been re-posting about it ever since. She's had more comebacks than Sinatra at this point.

[LaurenOlimina]

8. "Not dead yet!"

Large Man: Here's one.
Dead Collector: Nine pence.
"Dead" Man: I'm not dead.
Dead Collector: What?
Large Man: Nothing. [hands the collector his money] Here's your nine pence.
"Dead" Man: I'm not dead!
Dead Collector: 'Ere, he says he's not dead.
Large Man: Yes he is.
"Dead" Man: I'm not.
Dead Collector: He isn't.
Large Man: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.
"Dead" Man: I'm getting better.
Large Man: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.
Dead Collector: Well, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations.

[Denzil_DC]

9. Heh. Just watched that scene last night.

That troll from earlier should watch out for The Curse of Bader Ginsburg:

Ruth Bader Ginsburg to former critic who predicted 'with glee' she would die: 'He is now dead and I am very much alive'

Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has a scathing message for at least one of her haters – you’re dead and I’m not.

The liberal judicial icon made the remarks during a recent interview with NPR, in which she addressed ongoing concerns about her health following a cancer diagnosis last year.

“There was a senator, I think it was after pancreatic cancer, who announced with great glee that I was going to be dead within six months,” she said. “That senator, whose name I have forgotten, is now himself dead, and I am very much alive.”

It turns out that Ms Ginsburg was referring to former Kentucky senator Jim Bunning, who died in 2017.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ruth-bader-ginsburg-dead-senator-jim-brunning-npr-interview-alive-supreme-court-a9021476.html

Welcome to DU, by the way.

[LaurenOlimina]

10. Right after I checked twitter, CNN and had Alexa play NPR, that was the first thing I thought of.

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7. Probably. Foxnews, thehill, and tmz all had the "story"

Foxnews probably came first, but not clear.

Thehill has details the Fox news graphic didn't have, such as that it was a heart attacking after experiencing chest pain at home, so maybe that story came first. Then again thehill might have embellished because that's what some of these sites do....

[StarryNite]

11. Sloppy and cruel reporting

[NCLefty]

12. They said Hillary was dying of every horrible disease known to man when she simply fainted.

And these are the same people telling us we're sick for wishing for a recession.

[walkingman]

13. I overreacted to the post and called my MIL to tell her. I did not take the time to

investigate if it was REAL. Although I hate to admit it - there really it a lot of fake news these days. What a world we live in. I'm beginning to believe that SOCIAL MEDIA is a curse to humanity.