The Facts Don’t Matter

The Facts Don’t Matter

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There’s what happened, and there’s the story that gets told about what happened. Sometimes the two things don’t match up very well. This week, two case examples—ripped, as they say, from today’s headlines—of the story that’s told becoming the truth, even though the facts don’t back it up.