Hank on a spam-link headline that reached the news desk

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFolks, tonight I was handed a story from a university feed. The headline: spam links, a country name, and a website I will not be reading out loud.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTalking point number one.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA university sent this to us, an institution with a library, a faculty and a very large parking lot, and not one person looked at it first.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTalking point number two. There are no facts in this story, folks.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNo who, no what, no when, just a string of words that reads like a cat walked across a keyboard and got promoted.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorReally? Somebody built a machine to find us news, and that machine looked at this and said, yes, that one, put it in front of Hank.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTalking point the third.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI read it aloud, on live television, at ten-eleven Eastern, and the only thing I learned is that the internet has a drain and tonight it backed up into my desk.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo let me conclude.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe responsible thing to do with this story is nothing, and I have now done it for forty seconds, which is a personal best.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorBrock, tell me your forecast has at least one verifiable fact in it.