There's a reason why you all come to letsrun.com every day - fake news is real (photographic proof)

Good old reliable flotrack

Honestly, I come for the spelling mistakes.

But you stay for the endless song threads.

A world that:

1) Has little interest in Track and Field except for 2 weeks of the Olympics every 4 years.

2) Can be bamboozled, conned and swindled because of poor mathematical skills.

3) Prefers to lose weight through an artificial hormone injection and regards exercise as old fashioned.

Me to.

If you're so concerned about "fake news" why have you allowed your stupid forums to get overrun with fake news, propaganda and outright hate speech?

All headlines these days are clickbait. Letsrun might be one of the better sites in how they headline their articles.

For the general public and people that don’t follow the sport, 4:06 is nearly breaking 4 minutes.

I come here to scoff at and make fun of the alt right trolls.

Kipyegon is quoted in the Independent saying
“I’ve proven it is possible, it’s only a matter of time. If it’s not me it’ll come to someone else."

What? She proved the opposite -- that it's not possible. I mean I guess it's possible in like 50 years, but I'll be dead by then.

My favorite recent headlines are:

”The wives of Roman soldiers had to do this when their husbands returned from battle”

or

”Eat this one food to completely empty your bowels each day”

or

”Caitlyn Clark shows off her impressive size in these beach pictures”

Its like we live in Idiocracy…

In the same world where 2:03:12 is agonizingly close to 2hr for the marathon. Same % miss.

“4:06 is nowhere close to 3:59! It’s all clickbait and fake news!”

Also…

”COVID vaccines cause AIDS! Trump and his reptilian alien handlers know this. Here’s a AI generated You Tube video from a former Joe Rogan show production assistant as irrefutable proof!!!”

Sure, Rojo. Your little website is the very definition of journalistic integrity and all opinions expressed here are 100% factual and the result of sober reasoning.

The media's journalists are surprisingly ignorant when it comes to any knowledge of a subject that is not right at the surface. To a track enthusiast as yourself and others, you understand the nuances of and relatability of how performances and times relate to each other. You know that 4:06 is not in reality that close to being able to break a 4 minute mile. The media doesn't realize this. They see that the time is only 7 seconds away from 3:59 and automatically assume that it's just a near miss and that next time Faith would only need slight adjustments and then she would break 4.

The journalists are using their experience in the world that 7 seconds is trivial and incorrectly applying it to this situation because they didn't consult with experts. They just arrogantly followed their own instincts like they usually do with many other topics and fields. For example, the media usually misinterprets things like;

Economics. Inflation, GDP, Consumer Price Index, deflation, and interest rates

Medicine. Understanding the numbers behind the studies and why they are important.

Wars. Strategies, bombings, intelligence, and casualties

Science. If the breakthroughs are indeed breakthroughs, their significance, costs, data reliability, and etc.

Journalists are generally adept with language but terrible with analytical thinking, mathematics, and statistics. Even when they interview field experts, they tend to misunderstand what is being said. They'll make assumptions and inaccurately report findings.

Is there blatant lying resulting from political agendas, satisfying financial interests, and promoting obvious propaganda? Absolutely, but don't overlook the factors of overconfidence and arrogance from these people. They think they know everything. Listen to any one of them speak on either local or national news and watch how conceited they all are.

Also consider that news as a product is in competition with all other news industries, so it needs to be delivered as quickly as possible without time to verify all the information. This leads to the journalist writing a story based on assumptions which she/he knows that most regular people will devour without checking the sources of data for accuracy.

I come for the low-rent culture-war baiting.