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velter

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  1. The dog biting ... I made it up to get your attention.:-)

     

    I read this interesting story on www.Wikipedia.org :

    "The phrase Man bites dog and the related phrase Dog bites man are used to describe a phenomenon in journalism in which an unusual, infrequent event is more likely to be reported as news than an ordinary, everyday occurrence. This can be explained by the fact that the news media generally consider an event more newsworthy if there is something unusual about it.

    The result is that news items carrying titles that follow the spirit of "Man Bites Dog" occur more often than those that conform to "Dog Bites Man," making it seem as though the former event is more common compared to the latter than it actually is."

     

    Isn't that interesting?

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