@RawStory Lies To Their Twitter Followers

Not a huge deal and I’m sure it happens all the time – but I saw this go down live. Last night, Chicago’s mayor Rahm Emanuel had the police kick #Occupy out of Grant Park. FireDogLake’s Kevin Gosztola was there and doing video / twitter reports. Kevin is on the left but I thought he did a very good job of covering a story that the local Chicago media simply wasn’t covering at all and he kept it factual.

@RawStory was covering the Grant Park eviction, too. Them – not so factual.

They reported that the mean Chicago Police had removed tents. You need to read this graphic from bottom to top. You can see their first tweet about this at the bottom. Then a few minutes later they re-tweeted Kevin. So they were reading his feed.

So if they were reading Kevin’s feed, how did they miss him telling them that they were wrong – especially when he gave them an @ mention?

Here’s Kevin’s feed.

@Raw Story never corrected this. I sent them a tweet about it, too. This is deliberately fooling your reading. Shame. Shame shame shame.

hey also didn’t RT this from Kevin.

Nope. Hamm.