Media Loses Credibility By Calling Uncontacted Tribe Story “A Hoax”

Levi Novey — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:41:45 +0000

Earlier this week, several media outlets chose to dip their hands into the sensationalist journalism cookie jar a second time, and for all of the wrong reasons. About a month ago, an exciting story broke about how photographs of an uncontacted tribe living near the Brazil-Peru border had been taken for the first time. Now some media outlets, following the lead of the British newspaper The Observer, are calling the story a hoax.

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Media Loses Credibility By Calling Uncontacted Tribe Story “A Hoax”