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ah free speech journalism! 
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I will never understand why some people on Apolyton find you so clever. You're predictable, mundane, and a google-whore and the most observant of us all know this. Your battles of "wits" rely on obscurity and whenever you fail to find something sufficiently obscure, like this, you just act like a 5 year old. Congratulations, molly.
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... almost as good as faded glory.
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The Mirror
And Im not convinced 'marked improvement' is psychiatric double talk for 'hoax'. I would like to hear that from the guy himself.Safer worlds through superior firepowerComment
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The article, in Danish, that I read in the paper presented it as a hoax, and also included the two pieces of irrelevant information I mentioned.Comment
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The Mirror is presenting it as an 'exclusive' from an unnamed insider at the hospital. The Mirror quotes the insider as saying all the bits about gay farmers and whatnot. I trust unnamed sources in trashy tabloids about as far as I can throw themSafer worlds through superior firepowerComment
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I just looked through Google News, and just about all stories mention all the same things, so it's certainly not just an exclusive of one trashy tabloid (unless everyone copied it from The Mirror).Comment
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Well, the Times quotes the Mirror, and the Daily Mail has the hoax news acording to 'newspaper reports'.
google news/bangkok post made me LOL ''Piano Man' a jobless gay from Bavaria' They start by saying that he admited it was a hoax, but later say their their quotes are accorind to a 'London newspaper report.'Safer worlds through superior firepowerComment
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I don't see what the problem is with the reporting, apart from the concerns about relevance I raised earlier.
I don't think there's anything particularly strange about the papers referencing eachother. That's the way many news stories are spread in different papers. Whether it spreads sufficiently, as in this case, is really the choice of the different editors, and the confidence they place in the original or subsequent sources.Comment
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Regardless of whether you trust the source (I dont, but I know that the mirror is glorified trash, with a habit for sensationalising stories) it doesnt mean that the piano man was faking it. As some Scottish Doc says at the end of the mirror article, he could have been suffering from catatonic schizophrenia or severe depression. I dont remember the piano man ever saying he couldnt talk, its a shame this guy is getting grief for being mentally ill.
also, I dont think the mirror insider said the piano man was faking it, the hoax angle was the mirrors spin on the storySafer worlds through superior firepowerComment
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I see your point. The reports of this being a hoax could have been exaggerated by the newspapers.
But it's a little mystifying then why he only spoke for the first time Friday, and the day after he was on a plane back home. If it wasn't all just an act on his part, they'd have kept him longer than that, in order to make sure he was fit to release.
In any case, it may be fair to assert that he's not at all well...
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