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On June 10, 2019, the supermarket tabloid Globe published a story exclaiming that singer Dolly Parton was paralyzed!: Despite the matter-of-fact nature of this clickbait headline, the story has numerous problems. Anyone who flipped past the sensational cover to read the contents of this article would have seen that the expert diagnosis was not provided by Parton's personal physician but by someone who simply watched a video of the singer. Here's an excerpt from the report (emphasis ours): Surprisingly, this isn't the biggest problem with the article's claim. The included picture appears to come from an interview Parton gave to 60 Minutes Australia in 2013. Presumably, this is the same video that Mirkin reviewed to diagnose Parton with Bell's Palsy. In other words, this breaking news is based on a piece of footage that is more than five years old. Since this interview, Parton has released a new album and toured North America. Here's a side-by-side graphic featuring the Globe photograph and a comparable still from the 60 Minutes Australia interview. Notice how Parton is wearing the same earrings and same-colored dress in both images: While this single still may have captured Parton's expression in an awkward moment, nothing appears wrong with her in the actual video:
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