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Chuck Hagel resigned. A White House spokesman said it was mutual.
The two sentences sum up the news part of a ten minute NPR report I listened to this morning. One fact, one official statement about the fact. That's it. The rest of the story was conjecture by the reporters and rumormongering.
Rumors are NOT news.
Conjecture is NOT news.
Unsubstantiated pseudofacts are NOT news.
Unexamined statistics are NOT facts and are NOT news.
http://www.askforevidence.org/
The two sentences sum up the news part of a ten minute NPR report I listened to this morning. One fact, one official statement about the fact. That's it. The rest of the story was conjecture by the reporters and rumormongering.
Rumors are NOT news.
Conjecture is NOT news.
Unsubstantiated pseudofacts are NOT news.
Unexamined statistics are NOT facts and are NOT news.
http://www.askforevidence.org/
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