‘Some’ means ‘me and my friends’

Good exposition of overuse of unattributed ‘some’ or ‘many’ in news articles by James F Kelly.  I have long thought that when reading ‘some think’ or ‘many people’ that you should substitute ‘me and my friends’.

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