{"id":685,"date":"2007-08-05T19:45:14","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T02:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnightowl.com\/2007\/08\/05\/newsletter-401-preview-lies-lies-and-more-lies\/"},"modified":"2008-03-25T10:34:04","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T17:34:04","slug":"newsletter-401-preview-lies-lies-and-more-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2007\/08\/newsletter-401-preview-lies-lies-and-more-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter #401 Preview: Lies, Lies and More Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, with so many resources for news about Apple Inc. these days, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d think it would be awfully difficult to just make up stories or come up with a wrong-headed interpretation of events. After all, a single foolish story ought to be short-circuited by the plain, unvarnished truth.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, things don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quite work out that way. 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