01-11-2021, 14:33
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Rise above the players
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Re: The future of television
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Originally Posted by Hugh
Betteridge’s Law of Headlines…
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"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.
As Andrew Marr said
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If the headline asks a question, try answering 'no'. Is This the True Face of Britain's Young? (Sensible reader: No.) Have We Found the Cure for AIDS? (No; or you wouldn't have put the question mark in.) Does This Map Provide the Key for Peace? (Probably not.) A headline with a question mark at the end means, in the vast majority of cases, that the story is tendentious or over-sold. It is often a scare story, or an attempt to elevate some run-of-the-mill piece of reporting into a national controversy and, preferably, a national panic. To a busy journalist hunting for real information a question mark means 'don't bother reading this bit'
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H’mmm…more research required?
http://www.climate.gov/news-features...global-warming
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