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  Pierre Salinger syndrome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It is named for Pierre Salinger was White House press secretary under President John F. Kennedy and an 'ABC News' journalist from 1978 to 1983.
On November 8 of that year, Salinger announced he had a government document given to him by a French intelligence source stating that friendly fire from the US Navy had been the cause of the crash.
Because Pierre Salinger zealously believed his information was accurate, but was unwilling to publicly expose his sources, some people charged that he believed it was true simply because it was posted on the Internet -- hence the "Pierre Salinger syndrome".
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 A Career In Broadcast Journalism - Pierre Salinger
Salinger was furious at the suggestion of delay and leaked the transcript to Hella Pick of the British newspaper, the Manchester Guardian, thereby ensuring that ABC would have to run with it that day.
Salinger would frequently telephone Arledge directly about something he wanted to put on air, bypassing the usual route of consulting with producers, correspondents and anchors, so that when they objected, as they often did, the message would come down that Roone has approved it.
Until the late 80s, Salinger had been a popular talking head in France and was a frequent guest on French news and public affairs shows when someone was needed to explain or interpret American events for French viewers.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Pierre Salinger
Salinger was born in San Francisco, California, his father a German Jewish mining engineer and his mother a French Catholic journalist whose father was a member of the French National Assembly.
Until the late 80s, Salinger had been a popular TV pundit in France, and was a frequent guest on French news and public affairs shows when someone was needed to explain or interpret American events for French viewers.
Salinger later became known for his claims in November 1996 that friendly fire from the United States Navy was the cause of the TWA Flight 800 crash, based on what was later explained to him as being part of a widespread Internet hoax.
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 PIERRE SALINGER - Reality vs Myth
CNN (3/13/97): "Salinger first based his friendly fire claim on a memo Russell wrote and circulated on the Internet." Russell's memo is the document that Salinger's French Intelligence source gave him noted in the previous CNN report.
Salinger's certitude in the friendly fire claim rested with the trust he placed in his long-time friend in the DGSE, but scrambling for some concrete justification other than faith in a friend he relied on the papers his friend had given him a month ago errantly assuming they were government documents.
Salinger's sources, documents, and belief in the friendly fire theory were based on a trusted French Intelligence source and Captain Richard Russell, not on Ian Goddard or his website.
www.serendipity.li /more/goddard2/salinger.htm   (1649 words)

  
 Biography of Pierre Salinger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Pierre Emil George Salinger (born on June 14, 1925) is a former White House Press Secretary to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and ABC News journalist.
He is known for his claims in November 1996 that friendly fire from the United States Navy was the cause of the TWA Flight 800 crash, based on what was later seen as an internet hoax.
Salinger was appointed as a Democratic United States Senator from California to fill the vacancy due to the July 30, 1964 death of Senator Clair Engle.
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 a day in the life of.........
So prevalent were these theories that the term "Pierre Salinger Syndrome" -- the belief that everything on the Internet is true -- entered the lexicon.
Salinger's evidence was actually an e-mail from Richard Russell, a former United Airlines pilot who also used to investigate crashes for the Airline Pilots Association.
As for Salinger, after years of suffering from dementia, he died of heart failure in 2004, but his syndrome lives on.
blogs.lotterypost.com /lottomike/2006/07/ten-years-on-twa-800-theories-persist.htm   (1025 words)

  
 Pierre Salinger syndrome at AllExperts
It is named for Pierre Salinger who was the White House press secretary under President John F. Kennedy and an ABC News journalist from 1978 to 1993.
Because Pierre Salinger zealously believed his information was accurate, but was unwilling to publicly expose his sources, some people charged that he believed it was true simply because it was posted on the Internet.
* Moira Gunn on the Pierre Salinger Syndrome
en.allexperts.com /e/p/pi/pierre_salinger_syndrome.htm   (357 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Each news-content provider will have to accept a degree of nebulousness in its facts (remember Pierre Salinger Syndrome?), and, as a result of market forces due to increased competition, will also have to find a way to distinguish itself from a glut of equivalents.
Pierre Salinger's naïve acceptance of an article on the Net that attributed the crash of TWA 800 to "friendly fire" has been trumpeted by many as an example of the dangers of Net journalism.
The only real result of Salinger's screw-up was that a dissident theory was aired (horrors!) and people were reminded to take Net news with a grain of salt.
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 The Globe and Mail: printer-friendly page
The most famous lesson involved former White House press secretary Pierre Salinger, who told a group of airline executives in 1996 that he had received an e-mail "from an important person linked to the government" stating that TWA Flight 800 had been downed by a U.S. Navy missile.
Salinger's, we're all developing improved filters to sort out truth from fiction on the Web.
But it's a long and agonizing process, and we're going to swallow a lot of codswallop before we can get a reasonably accurate fix on things.
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 Saving America from Salinger Syndrome one reader at a time... - Soccer Mom: Unplugged
He was the White House press secretary for JFK, better defined for his position as the gullible liberal democrat who caused the government to waste untold amounts of dollars and man hours researching the bogus theory that a U.S. Navy missile shot down TWA flight 800.
Interestingly, even after being proven factually incorrect, the myth that Salinger popularized continues to live on in Urban legend and is fodder for many internet websites and blogs.
Well, Pierre, back in 1997, was given the dubious honor of having a syndrome named after him.
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 TBRNews.org
Pierre Salinger, a former White House press secretary to President John F. Kennedy and ABC News journalist, prominently and repeatedly claimed he had proof that the flight was downed by a missile from a U.S. Navy ship.
Some people briefly gave the name of Pierre Salinger Syndrome to the tendency to believe things that one reads on the bloggers of the Internet.
Of the exposers of the Real Truth, throughly discredited Pierre Salinger has since died and Ms Borjesson has slipped into professional oblivion, along with many others.
www.tbrnews.org /Archives/a1793.htm   (1520 words)

  
 Supernatural News » Blog Archive » ‘Pierre Salinger Syndrome’ and the TWA 800 conspiracies
‘Pierre Salinger Syndrome’ and the TWA 800 conspiracies
From Jeffery Reid CNN: Bolstered by eyewitness accounts and the Internet, the explosion of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of New York 10 years ago spawned a slew of sinister conspiracy theories, most notably the belief that a missile from a U.S. Navy ship was responsible.
So prevalent were these theories that the term “Pierre Salinger Syndrome” — the belief that everything on the Internet is true — entered the lexicon.
www.supernaturalnews.com /?p=2020   (192 words)

  
 Sorry, my mistake - Icon - Technology - theage.com.au
The message gains momentum, hitting inboxes everywhere - a process known as Claire Swire syndrome in honour of the Brit whose smutty email about her boyfriend became notorious.
Salinger was an American journalist who alleged in 1996 that navy gunners accidentally shot down TWA Flight 800 some months earlier - a theory that has never been proved.
Salinger's source was a document dated August 22 that year, which was posted on the net at the start of September.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2005/06/22/1119321789344.html?from=rss&oneclick=true   (1735 words)

  
 Word Spy - Pierre Salinger syndrome
This syndrome stems from an embarrassing gaffe made by journalist Pierre Salinger in 1996:
Veteran American newsman Pierre Salinger said today he has a government document saying that Navy gunners accidentally shot down TWA Flight 800 while conducting missile tests, killing all 230 people aboard.
Salinger said the document was dated Aug. 22 and was posted on the Internet at the beginning of September.
www.wordspy.com /words/PierreSalingersyndrome.asp   (326 words)

  
 Workers World Nov. 21, 1996: Did Navy shoot down Flight 800?
The purpose was to deny charges raised by former ABC News correspondent Pierre Salinger that the U.S. Navy shot down Flight 800.
Pierre Salinger, press secretary for President John F. Kennedy, said that he had proof the U.S. Navy accidentally shot down Flight 800.
Salinger said he was prompted to speak out because an investigative report by the magazine Paris Match was being ignored.
www.workers.org /ww/shootdown.html   (1228 words)

  
 Marco Pierre White   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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Pierre Salinger syndrome - The Pierre Salinger syndrome refers to the tendency of people to believe anything posted on the Internet.
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 North County Times/The Californian - Brad Fikes' Silicon Beach column
If you are not careful, you will catch Pierre Salinger Syndrome.
Salinger is a once-respected reporter discredited by an Internet hoax much worse than the one that took in Dan Rather.
Salinger hyped forged documents claiming that Navy gunners shot down TWA Flight 800 in 1996.
www.nctimes.com /articles/2004/10/10/news/columnists/silicon_beach/14_37_4510_9_04.txt   (442 words)

  
 Pierre Salinger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He later became known for his work as an ABC News correspondent, and in particular for his stories on the American hostage crisis in Iran, the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie Scotland, and his discredited claims as to the cause of the explosion of TWA flight 800.
In a 1989 ABC Prime Time Live Special, he named the so-called "Kenyan Three" as the masterminds of the bombing.
Salinger • Reedy • Moyers • Christian • Ziegler • terHorst • Nessen • Powell • Brady • Speakes • Fitzwater • Myers • McCurry • Lockhart • Siewert • Fleischer • McClellan • Snow
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
WMR has learned from FBI sources that TWA 800 was shot down on July 17, 1996, by a Stinger missile fired from a leased speedboat by individuals associated with white supremacists and neo-Nazis.
The late ABC News correspondent and President Kennedy Press Secretary Pierre Salinger reported that TWA 800 was brought down by a missile fired from a Navy ship.
TWA 800 was brought down by a Stinger missile stolen in 1993 in a major weapons heist by right-wing militia members from Navy ships anchored off the coast of the U.S. Coastal Systems Base in Panama City, Florida, according to Navy and FBI investigators who investigated the theft.
www.perspectives.com /forums/view_topic.php?id=107916&forum_id=87   (3616 words)

  
 Conspiracy Theorists Suffering 'PSS' - TechIMO News
Pierre Salinger's ideas surrounding the explosion of TWA Flight 800 ten years ago has sparked so much controversy that the term "Pierre Salinger Syndrome" is now being applied to conspiracy theorists that believe most anything published to the Internet.
Terrorism was ruled out, as was the notion of a friendly fire missile.
Pierre "Don't confuse me with the facts" Salinger.
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 salinger on The Skateboard Directory
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger "Eleanor Rigby" by The Beatles A Word...
Moira Gunn on clueless politicians, the Pierre Salinger syndrome, and the death of the corporation...
re heading toward something called the Pierre Salinger syndrome, which is endemic to people who...
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 Keyword   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
So prevalent were these theories that the term "Pierre Salinger Syndrome" - the belief that everything on the Internet is true - entered the lexicon.
Minnon, a Lebanon parent whose 14-year-old son, Spencer, is a freshman at the high school, demanded the book be pulled from the curriculum because of its content.
PARIS - Pierre Salinger, a journalist and former press secretary to President John F. Kennedy, was also a prominent backer of the theory that the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 was caused by a Navy missile.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=salinger   (1095 words)

  
 Pierre Salinger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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 “Pierre Salinger Syndrome”   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The term was highlighted by JD who said that “distinguishing truth from myth is a necessary human skill, all the more important with the web’s ability to help anyone publish quickly.” Who’s Pierre Salinger?
Unfortunately, I am just one of those who suffer from this syndrome.
I can say that I am among those who easily believe… =p I’m not saying that I would totally believe in everything, but yeah..
tanutama.com /wp/2004/05/27/pierre-salinger-syndrome   (312 words)

  
 Eddriscoll: SALINGER SYNDROME IN THE BIZZARO WORLD
Back around 1996, Wired magazine coined (or at least helped popularize) the term "Salinger Syndrome" for someone who believes everything he reads on the 'Net.
The term came from Pierre Salinger's infamous press conference, where he claimed to have found a report on who shot down TWA Flight 800 in 1996 via the 'Net.
Douglas Brinkley is a historian who seems to have the same syndrome in reverse:
eddriscoll.com /2003/08/salinger_syndrome_in_the_bizza.php   (147 words)

  
 PC Free Zone
The truth is it happens all to often, with the story being made up or staged, then foisted on the public by the reporters as the truth, unverified of course, it is known as the Pierre Salinger Syndrome.
Remember when Pierre Salinger, put out the story about TWA Flight 800 being hit by a missle, or the time he stayed behind in Baghdad in the first Gulf war to broadcast for Saddam Hussein as his useful idiot, CNN hung on Pierre's every word as the gospel according to Luke.
We've seen this in all battle zones, there are a few objective reporters that go into the field but there are the rest that are barflies hanging around the bar swapping lies then collectively reporting the " news" as if they were right there.
www.theodoresworld.net /archives/2006/08/pallywood.html   (356 words)

  
 Syndrome News - Syndrome History - Ultimate News Database   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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