To some critics of the response effort by BP and the government, instances of news media being kept at bay are just another example of a broader problem of officials' filtering what images of the spill the public sees.
One passage, which recounts in detail other instances of news organizations mistaking Onion parodies for the genuine article, begins with text lifted from an Associated Press report on the confusion at Fars on Friday: It's not the first time a news outlet has been duped by The Onion….
On the new browser, for instance, readers of news articles swipe to turn a page instead of touching "next page" with a fingertip.
Those changes affect the type of content people see more frequently — photos from friends and family, for instance, instead of news stories — which can have an effect on what people are sharing across the network.
It is a blue-moon instance of good news; Ms. Sato is looking forward to reuniting with her husband and son in Sendai.
But let's look at it from the president's point of view: if he grieves more publicly or concretely, if he addresses every instance of bad news, like the hideous specter of Iraqis' celebrating the downing of the Chinook, he will simply remind people of what's going on in Iraq.
This weekend, in what turned out to be a real instance of fake news, hundreds of thousands of people on social media shared a clip of a little girl telling a man who looked a lot like Donald Trump that he was "a disgrace to the world".
This is just another instance of fake news, which took two dishonest right-wing operations to peddle.
Consider, for instance, the phenomenon of news leaks.
For instance, six months of news about the contraction of Internet businesses could be read two ways: it might cost newspapers dot-com advertising -- but any advertisers who had Internet stars in their eyes might now return to print.
