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81 year old FAKE NEWS story.

  • 11-01-2020 12:03AM
    #1
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,262 ✭✭✭


    I'm sure we all have heard about the fictitious 81 year old homeless woman discgharged from hospital and now homeless.

    Anyway RTÉ clarified the story to be BS yet the journal.ie still has it up as fact.

    Why do people lap this nonsense up every day and believe every stupid nonsensical story they read?


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  • #2
    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,340 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    I didn't believe it when I read it tbh.



    I was hoping this thread would be about a fake news story, published 81 years ago


  • #3
    Trigger Happy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,243 ✭✭✭Trigger Happy


    Ubbquittious wrote: »
    I didn't believe it when I read it tbh.



    I was hoping this thread would be about a fake news story, published 81 years ago

    Enjoy.
    https://news.gallup.com/vault/226658/gallup-vault-propaganda-fake-news-1939.aspx


  • #4
    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,960 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    Orson Welles' radio version War of the Worlds was broadcast in October 1938.


  • #5
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,262 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    Yessssssssssss!!


  • #6
    Gatling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Any link ?
    360_F_102352090_ie3kLjDIvgrT1sxVDknWCUh8PxgMYzM7.jpg




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  • #7
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Gatling wrote: »
    Any link ?

    Must be this one

    https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/homeless-81-year-old-woman-found-outside-gpo-to-be-prioritised-for-housing-38851373.html


  • #8
    Melania Frump
    Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭Melania Frump


    Knew this was fake the minute I heard it. There is no hospital on earth that would release an 81 year old woman with no forwarding address.


  • #9
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,262 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    Melania Frump wrote: »
    Knew this was fake the minute I heard it. There is no hospital on earth that would release an 81 year old woman with no forwarding address.
    https://www.thejournal.ie/81-year-old-dublin-homeless-4961643-Jan2020/

    Journal still have it up as gospel.

    Absolute rag.


  • #10
    q85dw7osi4lebg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,498 ✭✭✭q85dw7osi4lebg


    Jinglejangle69 wrote: »
    https://www.thejournal.ie/81-year-old-dublin-homeless-4961643-Jan2020/

    Journal still have it up as gospel.

    Absolute rag.

    Don’t forget who owns the site or you may forget your login details shortly


  • #11
    Ten of Swords
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,527 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ten of Swords


    This is the RTE link which says she was aged in her 60s, not 80s, and had accommodation arranged for 2 nights after her discharge from hospital

    https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2020/0110/1105529-homeless-woman-dublin/

    Moderator: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender, Vegan & Vegetarian

    Category Moderator: Social & Fun



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  • #12
    LaFuton
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 784 ✭✭✭LaFuton


    Jane Muscular Strikeout wrote: »
    Don’t forget who owns the site or you may forget your login details shortly

    who owns it?

    genuine question


  • #13
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,583 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Jinglejangle69 wrote: »
    https://www.thejournal.ie/81-year-old-dublin-homeless-4961643-Jan2020/

    Journal still have it up as gospel.

    Absolute rag.

    Have you a link to the story on RTE?


  • #14
    markodaly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,929 ✭✭✭✭markodaly


    Expect a lot more of this during the upcoming election.

    It depresses me that with each passing day, Ireland is following in the footsteps of Brexit Britain and Trump's America swallowing Fake and dishonest news wholesale.


  • #15
    The Satanist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 686 ✭✭✭The Satanist


    Pfft only in her 60s. She should get a job and be happy to pay €2k a month for an apartment.


  • #16
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Jinglejangle69 wrote: »
    Why do people lap this nonsense up every day and believe every stupid nonsensical story they read?
    Because they want to believe it. Love of drama and scandal and being enraged and witch hunting.


  • #17
    Abba987
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 311 ✭✭Abba987


    The Satanist wrote: »
    Pfft only in her 60s. She should get a job and be happy to pay €2k a month for an apartment.

    Spot on


  • #18
    q85dw7osi4lebg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,498 ✭✭✭q85dw7osi4lebg


    LaFuton wrote: »
    who owns it?

    genuine question

    Majority stake is by owners of this very site


  • #19
    Assetbacked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,969 ✭✭✭Assetbacked


    markodaly wrote: »
    Expect a lot more of this during the upcoming election.

    It depresses me that with each passing day, Ireland is following in the footsteps of Brexit Britain and Trump's America swallowing Fake and dishonest news wholesale.

    The same people that peddle these sob stories would then laugh at the idea that we should consider leaving the EU. The link I am making is that we will be told FG are failing and Irish society is falling apart but we have lost a lot of sovereignty from being in the EU and arguably do not have sufficient control over our affairs to address housing in a more meaningful way. Irexit = recession = less people and therefore more houses. Accordingly, any type of sob story in the media such as this one must be treated with extreme scepticism and the outrage brigade have agendas.


  • #20
    markodaly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,929 ✭✭✭✭markodaly


    Assetbacked wrote: »
    The same people that peddle these sob stories would then laugh at the idea that we should consider leaving the EU. The link I am making is that we will be told FG are failing and Irish society is falling apart but we have lost a lot of sovereignty from being in the EU and arguably do not have sufficient control over our affairs to address housing in a more meaningful way. Irexit = recession = less people and therefore more houses. Accordingly, any type of sob story in the media such as this one must be treated with extreme scepticism and the outrage brigade have agendas.

    Well leaving the EU is an extreme notion. Maybe SF may advocate it, as they have always been anti-EU but that is their business.

    However, crashing the economy will fix the housing issue, in part. :pac:

    You are correct though that the Dail only has so much sovereignty these days.
    With all the stuff about the RIC, independence not many realise that we are not really all that sovereign anymore. Hence 1950's style of social housing is impossible for various reasons outside our control.


  • #21
    JustAThought
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    not to mention the little promoted face that all itinerants irrespective of whether they have a halting site, mobile home paid for by the state and 50k in benefits are automatically classed as ‘ himeless’ as are all their many children. And pensioners in state nursing himes who have and are sleeping in a permanent bed and have a til death do up part place and criminals of course -all lumped together and classed as homeless.


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  • #22
    Sciprio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 790 ✭✭✭Sciprio


    Whatever about this story but it seems like Jinglejangle69 is one of those blueshirts accounts telling us how well we have it. Have a look through it's profile.


  • #23
    jim salter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 680 ✭✭✭jim salter


    Jane Muscular Strikeout wrote: »
    Majority stake is by owners of this very site

    cúnts (and not just because of this)


  • #24
    pinkyeye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,293 ✭✭✭pinkyeye


    Jinglejangle69 wrote: »
    I'm sure we all have heard about the fictitious 81 year old homeless woman discgharged from hospital and now homeless.

    Anyway RTÉ clarified the story to be BS yet the journal.ie still has it up as fact.

    Why do people lap this nonsense up every day and believe every stupid nonsensical story they read?

    Where is your proof that this story is fake??


  • #25
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,491 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Am I reading this right - some woman lying about her age refused hostel accommodation (even tho people were working with her to home her) that was available after leaving hospital, some wannabe good samaritan got a councilor involved, secured nice hotel accommodation.
    And this makes news, the fake kind - well I guess it does since it satisfies a certain section of societies agenda
    pinkyeye wrote: »
    Where is your proof that this story is fake??

    She wasn't 81 and had accommodation available but refused it


  • #26
    greencap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭greencap


    Melania Frump wrote: »
    Knew this was fake the minute I heard it. There is no hospital on earth that would release an 81 year old woman with no forwarding address.

    Box 7.
    Parcel motel.
    Drumcondra maxol.

    discussion/2058195983/russia-threadbanned-users-in-op/p3135

    😁



  • #27
    danger mouse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 559 ✭✭✭danger mouse


    markodaly wrote: »
    Expect a lot more of this during the upcoming election.

    It depresses me that with each passing day, Ireland is following in the footsteps of Brexit Britain and Trump's America swallowing Fake and dishonest news wholesale.

    Fake news has been around a very long time. Way before the events you mentioned. Didn't a scummy British rag for a paper print a story that Liverpool fans where pissing on dead bodies and stealing wallets during the Hillsborough Disaster. The ultimate fake news?. Its just a new outlet for the same oul same oul. We've swapped ****ty Red tops for ****ty internet media.


  • #28
    Edgware
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭Edgware


    Probably a sign of how social media will be use in the General election.
    As L.B.J. said about an allegation that an election opponent was riding pigs.
    " I know its not true but I just want see him deny it"


  • #29
    Fireball81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 412 ✭✭Fireball81


    Scary thing is when people believe what they read online by these 'jounalists' (remember the brexit vote?)


  • #30
    TheChizler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,545 ✭✭✭TheChizler


    How do we know the lying about her age and having accommodation part isn't false? Why vigorously choose to believe one story over the other? Don't have a clue what to believe here tbh.


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  • #31
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    markodaly wrote: »
    Expect a lot more of this during the upcoming election.

    It depresses me that with each passing day, Ireland is following in the footsteps of Brexit Britain and Trump's America swallowing Fake and dishonest news wholesale.

    Nothwithstanding the fake news, there's still a homeless crisis and still hundreds of people on trolleys each year since FG took over on 2011 and they have had move than enough time to alleviate these issues.

    They are just facts.


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