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Old 19-11-2007, 21:58   #9
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Re: 24 hour/live news: Is there any point?

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Originally Posted by Pierre View Post
Nearly all news broadcast nowadays is idle sepculation, conjecture and comment.

Just listen to the next news bulletin on the radio and guarantee you hear words and phrases such as:

Could be, may be, possible, possibly, might be.

Facts very rarely enter into it anymore.
As factual as the weather report then

I Swear I heard on the radio that it will be sunny and dry and then rain tommrrow...... This was as I was driving in a particularly heavy downpour
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