Quote Originally Posted by redGT
Totally. It's just like anything else. Take everything with a grain of salt and a bit of doubt.
It's amusing that Boortz is the most vocal person in speaking out against believing ANYTHING you hear him say unless you otherwise know it to be true. If you spend any time listening to him on any given day, you'll probably here him say it. It's not reverse psychology, it's the construction of the format. Truth is not what pushes ratings unless it hurts. Boring truth is bad radio, but sometimes it's great to take what someone's said, add what they have done 10 years in the past (Or haven't done) add an interesting (if skewed) interpretation of how those two seemingly unrelated points are in fact directly connected, and run with it.

Run with rumors? I guess, but if you really fault anyone in media for running with rumors then I assume you wanted to draw and quarter Dan Rather for going on air with what he knew to be falsified information from an acknowledgably unreliable source as proof to a rumor that had it's basis in pure political partisanship.

Oh, well, you probably actually don't even remember that whole incident, do you?