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Old 01-09-2016, 04:03 AM   #573
Sundae
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce View Post
That picture, complete with caption, supposedly came from a Brit newspaper.
That doesn't surprise me in the slightest.
The British [print] press have extraordinary knee-jerk reactions. As long as it sells a paper, it's fair game.

I think it was Iain Banks who wrote that the aphorism "the first casualty of war is truth" was naive in suggesting that truth in print was an existing commodity outside of conflict.
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