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Answer: no.

• bheadmaster 4y ago
  Seems like a classic rule of headlines: If the headline is a question, the answer is most likely "no". If the answer was "yes", the headline would be a click-baiting statement ("We Are Prisoners of Geography!").
  • esja 4y ago
    It is: Betteridge’s Law of Headlines. "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headline...
  • stackbutterflow 4y ago
    There's also "No, we are not prisoners of geography".
    • bheadmaster 4y ago
      That would sound a lot like: "No, the aliens have not enslaved the Earth" "No, the atmosphere is not on fire from nuclear testing" "No, 2 + 2 is still not 5" I wonder if that would count as news. Paraphrasing Dr. House: I ask you what is two plus two, and you tell me "it's not 15"? If converted into a question, the headline creates the tension, which is then released through the non-informative article. Equally not-news, but that way they at least get the clicks.
  • llanowarelves 4y ago
    You can also rephrase anything to be a question. Or even a question that sounds silly, so that people say no.