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Prairie Gates

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24. What in the hell?

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Sep 15, 2025, 10:22 AM

Monday

I'm sorry, but what the fuck is this:

"He has not confessed to, to authorities. He is, he is, he is not cooperating, but, but, but all the people around him are cooperating. And I think that's, that's, that's very important," Cox told ABC News'

It has been standard practice in news reporting forever to remove repetitions and filler words when quoting people in news stories. You literally learn this in junior high school journalism class. Was this story written by an AI? This is terrible.

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