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Would you like to hear my award-winning secret? Try public interest stories, they target the heart and fog the mind.

— Kent • The Simpsons

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Kent describes emotionally appealing stories as a way to cloud judgment and win an award. The supposed secret makes the advice cynical; it is not an endorsement of manipulating an audience.

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