If It Didn't Happen, Is It News?

You would think that an event that did not happen would be a news story, but you don’t know Tegna.

Tegna’s WKYC did a “Verify Report” on some tweets that said Cleveland Browns RB Kareem Hunt in a bar fight.

The station was able to “Verify” that it did not happen and yes somehow that became a story on the newscast.

It used to be that if something didn’t happen it was not news, but now it appears Tegna is willing to take non events and make them news stories just because it was on Twitter.

If WKYC is going to “Verify” bogus stories on social media, they might want to expand their newscast to 24 hours a day, because I think they will be very busy doing so.

Here is the station’s story on the news that never happened.

I wonder if it’s Emmy worthy?

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