<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://funwithcole.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[cogamble]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://funwithcole.wordpress.com/author/cogamble/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[5 Things The Media Loves Pretending Are&nbsp;News]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[Reporting the news is really hard. We've seen those poor guys standing in the hurricanes, trying to hold on to their microphone while debris flies by. And it's a good thing we have them; blogs and Twitter are nice, but to find out what's really going on in the world, at some point you need good old-fashioned journalism.

So can you blame a news outlet for using shortcuts and falling into the same old mistakes and cliches over and over again, just to fill space?

Yes, yes we can.]]></html><thumbnail_url><![CDATA[https://i0.wp.com/cdn-www.cracked.com/phpimages/article/9/8/2/18982.jpg?fit=440%2C330]]></thumbnail_url><thumbnail_width><![CDATA[]]></thumbnail_width><thumbnail_height><![CDATA[]]></thumbnail_height></oembed>