{"id":4513,"date":"2011-03-26T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=4513"},"modified":"2011-03-26T07:00:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T12:00:13","slug":"better-press-corp-please-gullible-journalist-falls-for-satirical-blog-post-technology-gma-news-online-latest-philippine-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/26\/better-press-corp-please-gullible-journalist-falls-for-satirical-blog-post-technology-gma-news-online-latest-philippine-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Press Corp Please :: 'Gullible' journalist falls for satirical blog post – Technology – GMA News Online – Latest Philippine News"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Gullible’ journalist falls for satirical blog post
\nTJ DIMACALI, GMA News
\n03\/26\/2011 | 06:12 PM
\nProminent Filipino journalist Carmen Navarro Pedrosa made a journalistic faux pas on Saturday when she warned Filipino readers not to be gullible \u2014 and then proceeded to unwittingly cite fake statistics from a satirical blog.
\nIn her From A Distance column in the March 26 issue of The Philippine Star, Pedrosa expressed concern over the purported findings of a Harvard University study, which claimed that Filipinos are “the most gullible people in the world.”
\n‘A serious allegation’
\n“This is a serious allegation we should not ignore… we better take it seriously,” she said.
\nThe problem is that the supposed Harvard study \u2014 including its “content analyses of over 500,000 historical documents from 300 different societies” by the “Harvard Institute of Political Progression (HIS-PP)”\u2014 is entirely fictitious, the work of satirical blog MosquitoPress.net.
\nApparently, the satirical nature of the post was lost on Pedrosa, who concluded her writeup by saying, “We are gullible because we are not able or do not question information. We prefer to believe what other persons tell us.”
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‘Gullible’ journalist falls for satirical blog post TJ DIMACALI, GMA News 03\/26\/2011 | 06:12 PM Prominent Filipino journalist Carmen Navarro Pedrosa made a journalistic faux pas on Saturday when she warned Filipino readers not to be gullible \u2014 and then proceeded to unwittingly cite fake statistics from a satirical blog. In her From A Distance … <\/p>\n

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