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> Feels like the media is making a mountain out of a mole hill here. That's been their job ever since cable news was invented.

• ses1984 8mo ago
  It’s been a bit longer than that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism It probably goes back as long as they have been shouting news in the town square in Rome or before that even.
  • otterley 8mo ago
    True enough!
  • lukan 8mo ago
    Word around the campfire is, telling stories and exaggerating them to get people attention, is as old as humanity. But good journalism is still something else.