
The McDonald's Hot Coffee Case
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Is It a Good Idea to Destroy the Myth?
This story comes out the way that AP wire copy works is that other newspapers print it and then they oftentimes will sort of shorten it to their own needs or like to fit into the space. I actually think it's amazing that it's often just taken for granted that the judges and juries in these cases are just like insufferable SJWs who I know critical context. It wasn't the hard news coverage that spread the myth. It was this second third wave of coverage when Stella Liebeck's case becomes fodder for editorials. And only once it becomes this reinforcement of this broader narrative, then people get interested in it.
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