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    1. Could it be possible it was a false reporting? Like the initial news was reported as no lives lost and then later on they discovered they were wrong?

    2. So my great parents didn’t die after all and I get to live! This is such excellent news!

    3. What about all that shit about that old lady getting banged in that steamy car? I’ll never let go?!

    4. Warm-Parsnip3111 on

      The Detriot one was printed on the same day of the sinking. They rushed a story out before all the information came out.

      Newspapers aren’t ironclad. Mistakes, especially if you’re rushing to get a story put before your competitors, happen.

    5. We’re used to having so much instant information that you have to sift through it with a fine tooth comb to find the truth.

      Compared to what we have, information moved at a snails pace back then. If the initial report you got via telegraph said that nobody died, you write up a story, print it, and sell it as fast as you can.

      When you get better information, you do the same.

      The story only died when it was as factual as possible and you couldn’t sell any more papers on it.

    6. TrolleyDilemma on

      Even if this was true, why would the adjusted story be that people did die? What would anybody stand to gain?

    7. Premature headlines, perhaps?

      People like to holler “fake news” in regards to mass media today, but phrases like “*yellow journalism*”, “*propaganda*” and “*manufacturing consent*” weren’t created yesterday.

    8. oh i just woke up in an AU, lemme check if the Hindenburg made it out in one piece, maybe Blimp air travel would be a thing

    9. I thought it was the Britannic that got hit – or wait – that’s the other conspiracy… or it is?

    10. Back when telephones were still a luxury with minimal infrastructure, newspapers sometimes printing dual versions of a story pending final confirmation of the facts. They didn’t do it a ton, but with major stories all the papers wanted to be the first with the headline so they had two versions ready to roll.

    11. The next day’s headline was even more interesting: “John Jacob Astor and 1500 others die.”

      #

    12. The Titanic is wrapped in several conspiracies. While passengers were rescued by Persian and Carpathia, many believe the ship on the ocean floor is the Olympic. There are some very interesting videos that compare the windows and structures that do appear to match the Olympic and not the Titanic. I’ve never seen these articles that everyone was saved. That must have hit hard when the update came out about losses.

    13. Using a sensationalist news paper article as primary source for a conspiracy is low even for this sub.

    14. Newspaper circle-jerk with little relation to full-facts.

      This is why they are labelled *relic-media* and still act so.

    15. Maleficent-Water8763 on

      Except for the men that were traveling to the US to petition against the creation of the federal reserve

    16. Those who say that even a single person died because of the Titanic sinking are conspiracy-theorists!!!

      How dare they doubt what the newspapers say?!?!?!?!?

      They must be also racists and fascists!!!

      Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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