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Propaganda?

Has anyone ever bothered to consider they would be propaganda. It was very obvious in Fallout 1 that GNN was in the propaganda business and that the canadian annexation being popular was purely government propaganda.

It details the president was indicted by congress for Jaywalking, showing there was some crititcal reporting of the US government, and therefore enough independence not to be pure propoganda. Agent c (talk) 20:00, March 18, 2013 (UTC)

Considering the overall tone of the reports, I'd say the information isn't reliable at all to be used for other pages (though it probably isn't propaganda). It all looks like a joke to me. 🚀banana (✒️banana wall) 01:03, June 7, 2017 (UTC)

Canonicity

So the Fallout Bible had some vague statements about the internal validity of the content in this holotape, never going into specifics about what those issues actually were. Regardless, unrealized lore additions/corrections made in a self-described "inconsistent" newsletter containing "some of the ideas that were being batted around" don't quite supersede the games, especially when it's writer doesn't "consider it canon."

What we do know, is that, with Fallout 3, Bethesda eventually retconned two separate dates assigned to events in the holotape:

The scope of the retcon:

Now when there are date retcons, you would assume that it was only the date that was in error - not the exposition of the passage. For example:

The date of the Canadian Annexation was moved to June 3rd, 2072. Super Bowl cannot occur in June.

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Super Bowl CXII still occurs on February 14th, 2075.

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Or are we considering the entirety of the source material to be complete garbage?

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Voiding the entire source material based on two dating errors is not a good rule of thumb. For example, this sets a precedent to say the Radio log: Aug 29 2077 holotape is to be ignored because the date is off by roughly 2 months. What's stopping someone from purging Myron from the timeline because prewar Jet exists in Vault 95?Scribe-Howard (waster_93) (talk) 20:30, 2 May 2021 (UTC)