Wednesday, March 21, 2012

No That Won't Backfire At All: Questionable Story About Obama's Daughter Disappears From The Web

Overall, the press has something of an implicit agreement not to use minors in the presidential politically tinged stories. For obvious reasons, is seen as a cynical maneuver. Of course, if you really have something interesting, it might be another story. This afternoon, many stories began to appear, talking about how the president's daughter Malia Obama went to Oaxaca, Mexico as part of a trip with some classmates (and 25 officers Secret Service). This news has been published by news agency AFP, and some of which relate to the fact that the State Department recently issued a travel warning urging Americans to stay away from certain parts of Mexico. It is not surprising, some included in this story that suggests a kind of ... something. Double standard? Hypocrisy? Of course, the details suggest that this really was not

much of the story. If you read the warning issued by the State Department, which clearly indicates that there is no warning in place of Oaxaca - if this trip does not seem to go against this warning.


seems likely, then, that the AFP has decided to support the story that someone once said, but the story is now being lost to from a variety of online publications (large and small), leading to easy questions and political points about how history is "deleted". Google News are about 27 versions of the story when I looked, then following the links, I found almost all of them went to stop. In most cases, they were replaced by 404 (including the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Australia) or sometimes simply redirect people to a page (Huffington Post and the International Business Times). The only version that are still in place was TurkishPress.com, but can not last long.







Now I am inclined to think that the use of minors in the political history of a president is usually a low blow and it is not nice about everything, but if something newsworthy happens, it should be easy prey. I also believe that by the sound of it, this story has been blown out of proportion by those who have not bothered to actually read the details of the destination or specific warning from the State Department that there is no problem in this destination.
But, having said all that, just that the question is to disappear completely, instead of placing a correction or an explanation of what happened while as fuel conspiracy theories and interest in history. This is exactly the wrong way to remedy the situation. There are a variety of possibilities here. Management may have asked the press to take the story, which generate more interest in the news. The AFP, as he realized he should not have published the story, could have issued an order to kill / shrink classes. Or maybe there is another reason. But there are good ways to handle these situations and forms that are guaranteed to return. Just get rid of items is more or less guaranteed to backfire and generate more
interest in history, even if it is a total non-story. Replacing the original story with a "well, we found, but we were wrong," would have been much more effective

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