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Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Literacy in News Reporting - NOT!
From: Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 08:24:59 -0400
Looking up Hanlon's Razor on Wikipedia, I found this. Charming:

A common (and more laconic) British English variation, coined by Sir Bernard 
Ingham, is the saying "cock-up before conspiracy", deriving from this quotation:
Many journalists have fallen for the conspiracy theory of government. I do 
assure you that they would produce more accurate work if they adhered to the 
cock-up theory.
—Sir Bernard Ingham[15]
--Bob Whitmire
Registered Neanderthal

On Jul 9, 2013, at 4:31 AM, Andrew Fildes wrote:

> Assuming conspiracy,etc. is the road to madness. 
> Apply Hanlon's razor immediately.
> "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

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