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#774: December 22, 2003

Knowledge Fight

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Is Alex Covering the Same Story in Multiple Outlets?

"This is disturbing because it either is evidence of Alex being an intensely malicious liar, or it reveals that he's someone with a below adolescent level of media literacy," says John Sutter. "I've always considered it to be a function of his laziness and knowing that his audience will see a bulk of headlines and assume that that means that there's more smoke there,. so there's definitely fire." 'If I were Alex and I saw a Bloomberg article, right, and I couldn't read it because it was behind the paywall, but then I saw a Yahoo article that was almost identical... Maybe exactly same fucking article,' adds Sutter. "'We cannot overestimate him', we

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