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2nd February 2006, 02:33 AM	#41
Jaggy Bunnet Philosopher Join Date: May 2003 Location: Sunny Leith Posts: 6,147	Originally Posted by Mephisto I also embrace your cynicism because you're probably right that they had all the articles written (complete with all the mandatory catch phrases) beforehand. According to Private Eye, the media have been so keen to run their "100th" stories that once we got past about 95, the only fact that the journalists were interested in was whether enough soldiers had been killed in a particular incident to get to the "magic" number.

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