Issue 9: Burning History & the Ashing of Science

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The evidence suggests that people tuning into specific sources for news may not be getting an unbiased, or even wholly truthful, story. How could something like this happen? The only reasonable explanations would be that either the reporters are consistently wrong, which would certainly mean sweeping staff changes and policy revisions, or that the stories in question were broadcast as they were on purpose. Perhaps these practices are so broad because around 90% of all American media is directly or indirectly owned by one of 6 companies: Comcast, NewsCorp, Disney, Viacom, Time Warner and CBS. This is in stark contrast to just 30 years ago when more than 50 different corporations had a share in mainstream media. The landscape is apparently very different now, and it allows for vastly different methods of news broadcasting. It translates into a shockingly small amount of people who dictate what MORE OF ETHAN’S USELESS KNOWLEDGE ligature is a symbol that combines two or more symbols together to form one idea. If you look closely, you can see the e and the t represented within the symbol. Basically, fancy people “back then” were really lazy and didn’t want to write the word “and” every single time. Instead, they borrowed the Latin symbol and just pronounced it and (presumably so when they wrote their run-on sentences it didn’t hurt their wrists so much with all that swishy feathered quill writing everyone did back then). ‘Twas Wednesday & ye sky was blue & my cat hadst thrown up on ye carpet & ‘twas most gross. People would use the ampersand to shorten words already shortened, further solidifying the laziness of humanity. The Latin phrase et cetera (which means “and so forth”) is commonly abbreviated etc. How- ever, you can abbreviate it further by shortening it to &c. People liked using the ampersand so much, it was basically the unofficial 27 th letter and was taught as such in schools. Back then, when the teacher would make you recite the alphabet, whenever you came to a letter that was also a word by itself (the letters A, I, &, and originally O) you would say “per se” (Latin for “by itself”) before the letter. Near the end of the alphabet, you would say, “X, Y, Z, and per se & (and).” Years of bored children hastily trying to get through their alphabet would slur the words “and per se and” together until we get ampersand. This odd-looking glyph was stolen from a dead language because we were too lazy to write three characters, and was named after people hastily reciting it in grade school. Go forth and share all of this useless knowledge with the world.■ WWW.KNOWYOURORIGINS.ORG THE REALIST NEWS SINCE NEWS WAS NEWS
Guilty You probably are & need to learn why, so watch this great music video of "Word Crimes" by "Wierd Al" Yankovic. of Word Crimes? a large majority of the population see. Now, obviously, I’m not privy to the intentions or desired outcomes of any of these companies or their practices, so I can only inform you readers based on the information available to me. The news is easily the best way to be able to gather information about the world around us, but one should always be careful with any information that comes his or her way. You can’t believe everything you hear, because you never know who is trying to profit off of you. Which begs a question about journalistic integrity: Is it an urban legend? An oxymoron? A myth? The world may never know. Or at the very least, you apparently won’t see the answer on the news. ■ OSRS: STATING THE FACTS SINCE 2012
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