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Demeter

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8. If you ask a question in a headline, the answer is always NO
Thu Oct 15, 2015, 06:30 PM
Oct 2015

Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist, although the principle is much older...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

"...my maxim that any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word "no." The reason why journalists use that style of headline is that they know the story is probably bullshit, and don’t actually have the sources and facts to back it up, but still want to run it."

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