Fake news

AUCKLAND, Sunday: “When we combine both gullibility and inaccuracy we end up with some people treating anything they hear on the news with open cynicism yet steadfastly defending to the death any drivel that their auntie’s cousin heard.”

Herald on Sunday Business columnist Paul Catmur reacts to email “news” that six million tonnes of cocaine is imported into Australia every year. “This would mean that every man, woman child in Australia is spending $ 1 million of cocaine every week,” he writes.

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