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NY Times on Windows: Hiding a Statement in a Question

Chris Schultz ✌️'s avatar
Chris Schultz ✌️
Oct 16, 2006
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Microsoft Vista

Journalists have a trick they use when they want to make a statement, but they need to soften it to make it less controversial. They take a headline and transform it from a statement into a question. It’s easy to read between the lines on these, and the NY Times threw one Microsoft’s way on Saturday:

  1. Is Windows Near End of Its Run? — original headline

  2. Win…

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