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Wait a day, then comment

23 January 2019

7:27 PM

23 January 2019

7:27 PM

The mainstream media – let alone social media – are so good at generating instant outrage that I now have an informal rule: try not to comment on any new development or news story for 24 hours, because the chances are that what was originally reported will turn out to be at least partly and sometimes completely garbage.

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