Perhaps the largest word-symbol notable for its absence in every single Corp-owned newsfotainment: as now constitutes some humongous percent of air time. If it can't sell something - no need for us to carry it at all.

(I saw some of those babies - esp. on FOX - during immediate events. Their puerile gabble was literally painful to bear - even as an experiment)

"Looking into a college textbook as an adult is a shock (and a vivid reminder of why we were so glad to get out of school). The prose style is at once puerile and impenetrable, Goodnight Moon rewritten by Henry James."
--P. J. O'Rourke, Eat the Rich

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