My rule of thumb is that if you hear more about "the controversy" rather than the actual details of said controversy, it's not as bad as you think. I suppose it

My rule of thumb is that if you hear more about "the controversy" rather than the actual details of said controversy, it's not as bad as you think. I suppose it's related to Betteridge's law of headlines, mainly because if you really wanted to get people riled up about what someone said or did, you'd simply show it. Granted, something really obscene can still be quoted by replacing offending words with ***?