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Old 09-07-2020, 06:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Aloha1 View Post
Agree, BUT! It shows the intent, agenda, and bias of the authors to posit it the way they did.
It's just sensationalism. Nothing new. I don't know if you remember newsreels at the movies, but they were of the same ilk, with videos. If you've ever read the National Enquirer, or the Weekly World News, or any of those ridiculous newsrags, you'd see a lot of the same.

They take a fact, and twist and turn it and spin it into something more interesting than it really is to make an eye-catching headline. And then you find out that the story really isn't that interesting. But you got sucked into reading it because of that headline.

If you read it carefully and have a decent nose for actual journalistic writing, you can filter out what is sensationalist, and what is at least truthful, if not factual.