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Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

• isostatic 8y ago
  Does Betteridge's law always apply?
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  • davidkuhta 8y ago
    Hat tip to the other two posters for providing serious responses. If you intended that as a light-hearted witty response (as I believe you did), then you got a chuckle out of me.
• SketchySeaBeast 8y ago
  So what I'm hearing is the press should reframe their questions to get the results they intend. "Will world hunger continue into next year?"
  • bluGill 8y ago
    That is not a result they want though. World hunger it good for a few stories every year, less people would buy papers without world hunger. (war is better than world hunger for selling papers but they need something else once in a while or people start to recognize patterns and quit buying papers)
    • SketchySeaBeast 8y ago
      Damn their short sightedness!
• wglb 8y ago
  But in this case, the answer is "yes".
  • simonh 8y ago
    For values of 'soon' that would be unfamiliar as such to most people.