the new limits of "novel" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[victor steinbok]

Given my experience with journalism students, I agree completely.

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On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
<Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
>>
>> I don't want to think so. Surely the boundary between "fiction" and
> "drama"
>> is still widely recognized. It's easier to assume that somebody at CNN
> just
>> didn't know what he was talking about.
>>
>
>
> " It's easier to assume that somebody at [any given media or internet
> outlet; a political office; anyplace with a microphone or keyboard] just
> didn't know what he was talking about."
>
> I propose this as Lighter's Law.
>
> I predict it will zoom past Murphy's in importance as the years go by.

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