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Originally Posted by 1stE53
Not the same. How often do the tabloids get a story that no one believes because of the source, but turns out to be true. Mostly Hollywood stuff, which who cares!, but I'm just saying it happens all around us. Pay attention a little more and you will notice. Rumors are based on truth a lot of the time.
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It is exactly the same. If I said "Elvis is alive and working in a burger joint" often enough, it would be picked up by a tabloid, which is your example above. Nobody would believe the source, as you said, but it wouldn't turn out to be true, the opposite of your suggestion. False rumours are still false. When you read that tabloid, and say "Well, where there is smoke there is fire" you are essentially rewarding someone who told a lie often enough. How about applying some critical thinking to the nonsense being sprouted by the press (and I use the term press very loosely)?
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