Incompetent story tellers do this all the time. They cover their false leads with the NEWS of a new development. They get away with half-baked because the audience appetite for novelty and mere stimulation is enormous. And the half baked element means the advertiser will have another story for sale on another day, Who cares that the story changes - only they,
This mainstream media reality could be fine and entertaining ( or just simply distracting ) providing the story isn't important to get precisely right.
In practical life and even the mad world of politics person who fail to be precise must not rule.
If lives or a healthy economy depend on it, getting things precisely right PR must rule over half-baked HB .
So here are at least Two early clues to false leads
1, The story is secondhand, The repeater can be expected to shore up his inadequate understanding with claims that His ( often spicy ) version of the content has scientific or genuine authorship. If the repeater is not qualified to speak with authority in the area he claims to be an authority he should be questioned. go straight to point 7 and 8 to save time. The time the screen savers seem to waste on these things .
2. Claims of new information The storyteller will often claim newness .
3. New Names used the storyteller will often claim authorship and therefore their own name for the idea ,
4. Claims of the New storyteller suggest he /she has Both new authorship and ownership rights.
5 To do the above the repeater may steal parts of the old and make out that a new creation is involved 6 The more complex the phenomena the more places the repeat agency has to hide.
7 Real authors are precise - they can qualify even their long winded witness statements and imperatives when and if questioned, Gossipers are everywhere, Paradoxically you can sometimes pick those whose impatience as listeners prevents them from truly learning and being competent, when they ask , not for answers, but ask for the short version (without all the necessary connections )
8 Easily Undone. Complex phenomena eat up both failed problem definition and solutions easily. Ask a dumb question , just even one and maybe you will call this house of cards to fall . But watch out repeaters have no sense of humor, They may kill you if you cause laughter to break out amongst the crowd .
9 Shame Repeat agents are nowhere to be seen when a defense is needed for either or both of the above
Good luck . being a winner is the best game and sustainability is the game of the future
Now let's get into them .
Taking FIRST one huge Furphy that has failed to retain its credibility over the years,
