| Topic: | Re:Re:Are our State shools allowed to teach history? | |
| Posted by: | Bernard Allen | |
| Date/Time: | 23/06/20 19:34:00 |
| Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist who wrote about it in 2009, although the principle is much older.[1][2] Like similar "laws" (e.g., Murphy's law), it is intended to be humorous rather than the literal truth.[3][failed verification] The adage fails to make sense with questions that are more open-ended than strict yes–no questions.[4] The maxim has been cited by other names since 1991, when a published compilation of Murphy's Law variants called it "Davis's law", a name that also crops up online (such as cited by linguist Mark Liberman), without any explanation of who Davis was.[5][6][7][8] It has also been referred to as the "journalistic principle" and in 2007 was referred to in commentary as "an old truism among journalists".[9][10][11] Contents. So I am now replying to a couple of old faded journalists or History teachers |