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Reporters have a rule of three: if they can come up with a trio of similar occurrences, they can announce that they've discovered a full-blown trend. But to what extent are the "latest crazes" really the result of a desperate search for story ideas? Bob reports on the media's cottage industry of trend-spotting.
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