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“ Maybe he has always had an abiding love for the remarkable drama and character development of vampire fiction. All we can know for sure is that whatever Suárez’s motivation late in the second half Sunday, he delivered what was almost surely a stunning, and grossly unhygienic, farewell. ”

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… there was very little point in me writing a story saying “some person you probably haven’t heard of is very unlikely to actually exist”.

Given the amount of information pouring onto the internet every minute, it’s statistically inevitable that a substantial amount of that information is going to be erroneous — especially when the source is something as unedited as Reddit or Twitter. No mainstream journalism outlet should allow its coverage of a major story to be hijacked by backchannel noise — especially when a large part of the value such outlets provide is that they filter out the noise and transmit only a reliable signal. Just because your readers can peer behind the curtain, doesn’t mean you have any responsibility to yank it open yourself.

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