Fucking assholes. (The media, not Kimmel.) DO YOUR FUCKING JOBS.

The fact that the real news is basically idiots talking about rumors from the internet makes me feel less irresponsible for getting all my news from comments on PoeTV.
Up next, Wolf Blitzer reads your tweets!

We do not forgive, we do not forget.
Our group has OVER 9000 penises, and they are all raping children.

Legit Olympian posts what appears to be a legit concern about legit wolves roaming the hallways on her legit Twitter feed. The media reports on the rumor because A.) it is a story of public interest; and B.) because Sochi is full of legit problems, from piss-yellow drinking water to snow that turns to slush.

Then the Olympian turns up and says, "ROFLCOPTER GUYS! You so dumb for thinking Sochi has problems that need investigating." Then we stroke our chins and ruminate about how much smarter we are than the news media.

You know what else is funny? Yelling 'fire' in a movie theater well-known for its well-documented safety problems, then mocking the first responders.

Jimmy Kimmel was.. entertaining? I'm so confused.

I'm not 100% sure I understand what Jimmy's point is. What was their crime? Not flying all the way to Sochi to try and find the wolf personally before reporting on it? He even shows what lengths he went to to make it look convincing and then acts like their dumb for being convinced by it? I think his comment is muddied by the story being something that no rational human would have any great reason to doubt. Even the best reporter in the world wouldn't look at that and say "This SEEMS legit, but this COULD just be the work of an eccentric millionaire recreating a perfect copy of an Olympic dormitory and then asking an Olympian to tweet it out just to fool me!"

Wait.. what's the big deal? It's a fucking DOG of some kind. Looks like a wolf. I'd probably have the same reaction.

Just you wait, when a wolf REALLY comes down her hallway nobody will believe her.

I'm so angry and disappointed in the media lately that I think they deserve any trolling they get.
Hey, media: "-gate" isn't a real suffix. And I don't need it on a word to understand when something is a scandal. Fuck off. Also, "openly gay" doesn't mean "published his gayness in a periodical of more than 5000 readers." Do I need to take out an informative ad in my local paper to be considered "openly" hetero?? FUCK OFF.


Sorry.

I just realized what this hoax needed: some very simple puzzle to unravel that would expose this as a deliberate hoax, to see if anyone would do a minimal amount of journalism.

Columnist Bob Harris tells of one time was watching CNN during the Kosovo War, when the big news was that a few American soldiers had been captured by Yugoslavian forces. As a visual, CNN was playing a Yugoslav video of the soldiers, while the CNN talking heads were saying that there was no word on the identity of the soldiers. But anyone with any familiarity with Cyrillic characters could see the names of the soldiers right there on the screen.

So maybe that's what Jimmy should have done -- put a sign across the hall in Cyrillic characters that phonetically said "this is a hoax, do your job media" or "If you can read this you probably aren't CNN".