Comment on Employer Tipped Off Police In Pressure Cooker/Backpack-gate, Not GoogleparentComments−tptacek13yHm. I tried to be careful when I used the word "hoax"; for instance, I described it elsewhere as an "inadvertent hoax". But I'll go farther here: I think the story was dishonest and deliberately sensationalized. Yeah, I'll call it a hoax. Sure.−regularfry13yI'll go along with "deliberately sensationalised." That's her job, after all. "Dishonest?" I think she believed what she wrote, when she wrote it.
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Hm. I tried to be careful when I used the word "hoax"; for instance, I described it elsewhere as an "inadvertent hoax". But I'll go farther here: I think the story was dishonest and deliberately sensationalized. Yeah, I'll call it a hoax. Sure.
I'll go along with "deliberately sensationalised." That's her job, after all. "Dishonest?" I think she believed what she wrote, when she wrote it.