This is why the media and press are epic fail and people don't believe them...

[TheHumanAlphabet]

Epic fail, 2 NYC High School kids punk the NYT. No fact checking... What a dumb ***... That reporter person should be fired, run out of town on rails and then have their college degree taken away for falsifying their college efforts. The reporter apparently is dumber than a bag of rocks and didn't earn their degree...

Sucks for those kids, they will have to live with it for some time...

[Turd_Ferguson]

2 NYC High Scholl kids punk the NYT

Gold.

[Sooner8th]

Epic fail, 2 NYC High Scholl kids punk the NYT. No fact checking... What a dumb ***... That reporter person should be fired, run out of town on rails and then have their college degree taken away for falsifying their college efforts. The reporter apparently is dumber than a bag of rocks and didn't earn their degree...

Sucks for those kids, they will have to live with it for some time...

Link?

[badger]

Whoa, slow down people... NYP, not NYT.

Link: http://nypost.com/2014/12/14/stuyvesant-hs-student-nets-72m-on-the-stock-market/

The story originally ran in New York magazine, which is also not associated with the NYT, other than "NY" i guess: http://nymag.com/news/articles/reasonstoloveny/2014/mohammed-islam-stock-trading/?mid=nymag_press

The kids let a tall tale go too far; it certainly wouldn't be the first time kids have cried wolf, so to speak. As such, a very gullible reporter needs to be held accountable

[TheHumanAlphabet]

Oh, sorry my bad. The venue does not change my opinion of news readers and comment requesters...

[badger]

Sometimes, a good story is just too much to resist.* Sometimes, it's just too heart warming, it's just too feel-good, it's too outside-the-box to bypass* and you start wanting the believe the unbelievable* and stop being skeptical. Soon, you want to believe the Million Little Pieces guy didn't make things up to make "his" story better** and there really is a kid in Washington DC that is addicted to heroin with heroin dealer parents who shoot him up*** and even if you know it's not real, the reporter made the story sound so nice that you don't care****

* Once again, I'm irritated that the reporter ran with a false story and the reporter needs to be held accountable.
** The book was a dumb read and had more f-bombs than lies and I can't believe Oprah recommended it even if it wasn't made up.
*** Janet Cook formerly of the Washington Post, who won a Pulitzer for the made up story. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Cooke
**** Jayson Blair formerly of the NY Times who fabricated and plagiarized many articles, among other things. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayson_Blair

[Sooner8th]

Epic fail, 2 NYC High School kids punk the NYT. No fact checking... What a dumb ***... That reporter person should be fired, run out of town on rails and then have their college degree taken away for falsifying their college efforts. The reporter apparently is dumber than a bag of rocks and didn't earn their degree...

Sucks for those kids, they will have to live with it for some time...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Tried to hammer liberal lamestream media and you just hammered a rightwingnut paper. TOO FVCKING FUNNY!

The new york POST is owned by the news corp that also own faux "news". Does your statement still stand on the reporter?

[SoonerorLater]

^^^^^^^ Troll Alert ^^^^^^^

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[Sooner8th]

^^^^^^^ Troll Alert ^^^^^^^

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Ignores posts of inflammatory comments, not to engage in serious conversation, but to "grief" or annoy liberals. Did you not notice that is what he was doing and totally failed on it?

[SoonerProphet]

From the leftist rolling stone to the right wing loony ny post, journalism has gone the way of the dodo in this here country.

[SoonerorLater]

^^^^^^^ Troll Alert ^^^^^^^

Act childish

"resort to swearing or personal attacks when their point of view is not embraced by others instead of simply moving on."

[badger]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Tried to hammer liberal lamestream media and you just hammered a rightwingnut paper. TOO FVCKING FUNNY!

The new york POST is owned by the news corp that also own faux "news". Does your statement still stand on the reporter?

To be clear, this was originally a New York Magazine story, not New York Post, who quoted NY mag. Thus, not sure the criticism of liberal lamestream vs rightwingnut paper is fair here... and not sure that's what the earlier posters were getting at, either. It seemed more of a critique on the media in general, rather than a poltical position.

This is actually one of the least political threads on Obamafest right now IMHO

[Wishboned]

New York Magazine is owned by the Wasserstein family, who obtained after Bruce Wasserstein (a huge Democratic contributor)passed away in 2009.

[TheHumanAlphabet]

8, this wasn't about who owns the damn thing. It was about stupid media and stupid journalists that I do not respect or trust anything they publish ever...