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MADem

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19. This is what passes for "journalism" nowadays. It's a great story as is, but the headline writer

Reply to riversedge (Reply #6)

Sat Jan 16, 2016, 06:20 PM

Jan 2016

felt a need to "jazz it up" by using the common and casual vernacular.

The end result is that the story appears less "valid" and more like clickbait or fluff.

In actual fact, that policewoman deserves a medal--she did a very good thing.

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