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14 Post author: Alicorn 25 December 2011 02:26AM

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Comment author: Sush 25 December 2011 09:49:09AM 3 points [-]

It's these fallacies that make reading newspapers almost impossible without becoming incredibly frustrated incredible quickly. I imagine the first media editor that realised they could miscontrue data to support their articles almost collapsed with excitement.

"Oh my god guys! Look, now we can weaponize our hyperbole!!"