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[Skittles]

1. this article has a very weird slant to it

what's with the so-called comments by a couple of teen-aged bystanders?

[Skittles]

4. the article makes it sound like the neighborhood does not care about senseless gun deaths

I think they care deeply

it's the NRA who does not care

[tomm2thumbs]

3. I'm wondering how a website started end of June this year fits the LBN rules

Domain Name: WNEWSO.COM
Creation Date: 26-jun-2015

Rules state: posts must be " from reputable mainstream news websites and blogs "

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Do you have permission to claim the copyright on Chicago Tribune articles without attribution?

You have copied the article from here:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-chicago-shootings-violence-20150928-story.html

but you left off the "Copyright © 2015, Chicago Tribune" bit, and instead put your own "Copyright All rights reserved" at the bottom of the page. On the face of it, this looks like plagiarism and intellectual property theft. So, yes, I think it's a problem.

[bemildred]

7. It's a problem, the web is full of bullshit "facts" and bullshit "news". nt

[Android3.14]

8. There are several problems with this article

The journalist applies motivation and emotion to the actions of people he or she supposedly observed.
This part, especially, seems bizarre for a news story.

That included two curious teenage girls. Having wandered toward the crime scene from the west side of Aberdeen, they reappeared minutes later on the east side of the street.

One of the girls, wearing a maroon shirt and light-colored pants, got excited as she saw an open sliver of sidewalk that allowed them to inch closer to where it appeared most of the shots were fired.

She started down the sidewalk, but her friend in a red sweatshirt hesitated.

“Come on!” the first girl insisted. “Why are you acting all scared?”

Checking their main page, this seems like a seriously strange news site.

[Android3.14]

9. There's no "about" link on the website

No copyright.
The news crawl appears to be in Arabic, but the headlines and text are in English.
All the stories are stolen from other sites, and list Ahmed Abdelaziz as the author.
I think this site is untrustworthy.

[TexasTowelie]

10. Locking thread.

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