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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 513 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

Always remember what really happened with the McDonald's lady who sued because her "coffee was too hot".

McDonald's themselves started the campaign that the issue was laughable, and seeded the notion that it's ridiculous, how could she not know coffee hot?

What really happened was that the coffee was:

  • Served well above safe ranges to maximize profits, so the coffee could be served longer
  • Was served near boiling temperature
  • Was so hot that it FUSED HER LABIA requiring extensive surgery to repair.

She sued only for her hospital bills.

They started a smear campaign against her to convince the public that she was a moron and she just wanted a payday.

Don't trust corporations. Ever.

[–] Nommer@sh.itjust.works 230 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not to mention they were warned many times before about serving coffee that's too hot. The woman got such a huge settlement because the judge was tired of McDonald's crap

[–] butwhyishischinabook@lemmy.world 106 points 4 months ago

Also they calculated the cost of lawsuits like that and decided they would make more money selling it that hot than they would lose in lawsuits over how hot the coffee was.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 117 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

What's that old quote? "A lie can make it around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes", or something like that? I believe that was pre-internet too.

It also happens with politics. I constantly see provocative headlines get lots of attention in one circle, and then the later corrections only get passed around in the opposite circle, if at all.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Look at just yesterday. One clickbait site said Beyonce was going to perform at the dnc, and by the time the truth and correction made it around it was already past time

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We desperately need a return of journalistic ethics and bland, just-the-facts news.

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is why in prefer NPR and BBC

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't call those the most reliable. Better than some

[–] UmeU@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What’s more reliable than NPR?

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Nothing is reliable that's the problem. NPR is a propaganda machine. There are worse ones to be far

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Critical thinking and media literacy. Just 2 days ago I heard NPR try to gaslight me that Gaza wasn’t a genocide.

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I'm so sick of these bloodthirty zionist bastards running everything

[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Plus those corrections only show up as a footnote on articles without it being altered or removed. Its laughable.

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's weird. Ideally you should put it right next to the title, that there has been an addendum and the following might be incorrect/outdated.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That depends on what your goal is, I think

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'd consider the goal be to:

  1. Keep the original article for historical and reference purposes
  2. Make sure that anyone who only cared to read the first sentence, didn't leave with confident misinformation.
[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago

Your goals are too honest for mass media 😅

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Its even worse in science. Lots of crazy headlines that are later debunked quietly

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

those headlines can also be debunked loudly and yet, anti-vaxxers still exist, somehow

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago

I wasn't talking about vaccinations. I was talking about fusion and other buzzy topics.

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Generally that's news media misconstruing science.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Which directly impacts funding

That's the big issue. If a project doesn't have big headlines frequently it is killed.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

I think more likely is that the news outlets need the revenue from clicks, and are willing to trade their reputation to get them. Accurate science journalism doesn't pay, capitalism is a race to the bottom.

[–] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 62 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Also, she got second degree burns, and she was not the first person to be injured by the coffee, and McDonald's was told multiple times that they served their coffee too hot.

During the trial, McDonald's showed zero care for the the people they injured, to the point that most of the fine that McDonald's ended up paying was punitive damages

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 37 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I'm sorry, it fucking welded her pussy shut????

the news did not report on that part

[–] unrelatedkeg@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 4 months ago

Yes. Yes it did.

No, they did not report that in media.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 22 points 4 months ago

I knew about the story, did not know about that detail.. I can feel my own cunt quivering in pain imagining that.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

The media are corporations also.

[–] p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

Of course it didn't.