Lots of people like to say they want to probe Uranus. Earthlings’ desires about that planet, and headline writers’ desires to write “probe Uranus” headlines, are again in the news. National Geographic‘s Breaking Orbit blog reports that “Europe Wants to Probe Uranus“: The Christian Science Monitor reports that “Scientists plan mission to probe Uranus“: (Thanks […]
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Newspapers now in the future
Newspapers today, as prognosticated by T. Baron Russell in 1906 in his book A Hundred Years Hence: the regeneration of the newspaper will be forced upon the newspaper-office by the development of public intelligence.… a well-informed public will resent obvious garbling or clearly unfair selection. The newspaper reader will no longer (as now) want only […]
Stare at The Sun: breast bombs
A news source (Fox News) famed for its reliability, reprinting news from another news source (The Sun) famed for its reliability, applies this headline: Terrorists Could Use Explosives in Breast Implants to Crash Planes, Experts Warn The Sun accompanies its report with the image reproduced here. Thus does vital knowledge get spread to the general […]
News horror: the WJW Fox cardboard bear
In this TV news report, a flat cardboard replica of a bear stars in re-enactments of a black bear sighting. Despite its alarming tone, the report seems to explain that the bear itself was (1) barely seen and (2) likely far from dangerous. The video, said to be from TV station WJW Fox-8 in Cleveland, […]