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I've experienced making this mistake myself.

The UK has Private Eye magazine. Because of their habit of making the front page a picture captioned with a joke[0], I assumed that's all they were for the first 15 years of me knowing the magazine existed.

Despite them also being famous for facing a lot of legal threats (and cases) for libel[1], it wasn't until the mid 2010s that I realised they're also known for in-depth investigative journalism into under-reported scandals and cover-ups.

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=private+eye+front+page&t=osx&iar=i...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-15279371



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