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Steve Bannon caught on video admitting Breitbart lost 90% of advertising revenue due to boycott

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    nic
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    This article is from 25 days ago.

    This article is from 25 days ago.

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      Algernon_Asimov
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      So? If that bothers you... the video the article is describing was recorded "last summer" - which, for a British newspaper, would mean June-August 2018 (actually, some research tells me that Steve...

      So? If that bothers you... the video the article is describing was recorded "last summer" - which, for a British newspaper, would mean June-August 2018 (actually, some research tells me that Steve Bannon visited London in July). So, this 25-day-old article is about a 9-month-old video!

      Sometimes events just happen to come to light at a later date.

      11 votes
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          cfabbro
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          I don't see that as implying present tense at all... "caught" is literally the past participle of "catch". And together the words just mean he slipped up and got recorded saying something he...

          I don't see that as implying present tense at all... "caught" is literally the past participle of "catch". And together the words just mean he slipped up and got recorded saying something he probably didn't want to be recorded saying. If it said "was recently caught", that would be another story.

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            1. cfabbro
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              Again, IMO it implies absolutely no such thing nor does the word choice connote it either... and besides, the date is very clearly published on the article directly under the headline: And Tildes...

              Again, IMO it implies absolutely no such thing nor does the word choice connote it either... and besides, the date is very clearly published on the article directly under the headline:

              Tom Embury-Dennis | @‍tomemburyd | Thursday 4 April 2019 11:32

              And Tildes very clearly shows that right next to the title as well... So this is a rather pointless argument.

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      svenkatesh
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      Yes, as the tildes summary notes it was published on 4/4 and has 284 words.

      Yes, as the tildes summary notes it was published on 4/4 and has 284 words.

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      1. nic
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        I hadn't noticed the tildes summary before.

        I hadn't noticed the tildes summary before.

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