Favre to Dance with the Stars? Um, maybe not.
But it really is “telephone”: An actual piece of reporting gets cited, then twisted ever so slightly. Then twisted again. Then given the imprimateur of a news organization’s high reputation. Then picked up by an amplifier. Then repeated often enough — like a mobius strip — that it becomes its own reality. Again, no judgments. This is simply how it works.
But when you follow the trail back to its original source, it turns out it’s just Kurt Warner’s off-the-cuff opinion on some red carpet. It’s not “reports.” It’s not “rumors.”
It’s not anything but a fun topic of discussion with no more basis in reality than you sitting with your buddy Kurt Warner at a bar, throwing out ideas for who would be fun on Dancing With the Stars.
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