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Old 02-13-2011, 05:20 PM   #43 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by aceventura3 View Post
I thought we were talking about news or facts and how the facts are presented. The closing price of a stock is news, it is a piece of factual information, and the closing price can be presented in a number of ways. It was an example of one of the simplest forms of news I could think of and I used it to illustrate that even something as simple as a stock price can be presented in a manner that reflects a personal taste.

Why did I need to explain that?
Because we aren't talking about business news. You should maybe try to talk about the actual example instead of something only tangentially related. Would it be too much of me to ask you to keep the focus on the example?
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