Refdesk is a free and family friendly web site indexing and reviewing quality, credible, and current Internet reference resources.

Rampant misreporting following shootings and other breaking news events is so predictable that we unintentionally developed a formula for covering them. 

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Truth in an age of noise.
Joan Westenberg

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