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December 22, 2012
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“There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and shame the devil”

Newspaper columnist and author Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) wrote in Liberty and the News (1920): "There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and shame the devil." The…

April 17, 2020
Media/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet

“There is a guy stealing iPhones around the town. He is probably going to face time”

FaceTime (a proprietary videotelephony product developed by Apple Inc.) shouldn't be confused with "face time" (jokes), but there are jokes. "There are two guys stealing iPhones…

August 31, 2018
Media/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet

“There is magic in the air and it’s called WiFi”

"There is magic in the air and it's called (free) WiFi" is a saying that has been printed on many images. "There's magic in the air and it's called Wifi" was…

August 10, 2016
Media/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet

“There is no truth in news and no news in truth” (Russian Izvestia and Pravda adage)

The Soviet Union had two important propaganda newspapers. Pravda ("truth") was the communist party newspaper and was published between 1912 and 1991. Izvestia ("news") was the…

March 26, 2025
Media/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet

“There should be a super morose font called tragic sans just to balance things out”

Comic Sans is a sans-serif typeface. The "comic" name seemingly implies other names. "RT @XaiaX: The name “Comic Sans” implies there’s a serif version was posted on X/Twitter…

June 11, 2019
Media/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet

“There’s a tweet for everything”

Twitter is a popular messaging service, and it's proverbial that "there's a tweet for everything." "I have a tweet for everything!" was posted on Twitter by…

July 13, 2017
Media/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet

“There’s an app on my phone that makes me look fat. It’s called ‘camera’”

"There's an app on my phone that makes me look fat. It's called 'camera'" is a jocular saying that has been printed on several images. "OMG! I just found an…

February 23, 2018
Media/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet

“There’s life outside the internet.”/“Send me the link.”

"There's life without Facebook and Internet? Really? Send me the link" is a jocular saying that has been printed on many images. A conversation with a friend was posted on Twitter on…

August 23, 2012
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“There’s no bad publicity except an obituary”

One theory about publicity holds that "all publicity is good publicity" and that there is no such thing as bad publicity; the only bad thing is no publicity. Irish writer Brendan Behan…

November 3, 2025
Media/Newspapers/Magazines/InternetRadio/Television

“There’s no bigger test of patience than typing your email on a TV with the remote”

Many people find it difficult to type using a TV remote, such as entering an email address. "Typing in your email address on the TV is a different type of irritation" was posted on…

February 13, 2020
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“There’s regular crazy and then there’s crazy with an internet connection crazy”

"There's regular crazy and then there's crazy with an internet connection crazy" is a saying that has been printed on an image. The saying was posted on Twitter by Pax Paxochka…

January 18, 2023
Media/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet

“They don’t want to ban hate speech. They want to ban speech they hate”

"They don’t ban hate speech. They ban speech they hate" is a saying that has been said in several forms. "They" is sometimes identified as "the left,"…

January 18, 2023
Media/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet

“They don’t ban hate speech. They ban speech they hate”

"They don’t ban hate speech. They ban speech they hate" is a saying that has been said in several forms. "They" is sometimes identified as "the left,"…

January 17, 2023
Media/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet

“They should start reporting the number of kids that go missing every day the way they report Covid”

"They should start reporting the number of kids that go missing every day the way they report Covid numbers. Maybe that would get people’s attention" is a saying that has been printed…

May 6, 2020
Media/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet

“They wouldn’t need to censor us if we were wrong”

Many people and groups have been censored by the media, especially the social media such as Facebook and Twitter. "They wouldn’t need to censor us if we were wrong..." was posted (with…

December 7, 2020
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“They’re making a male version of Amazon Alexa. It doesn’t listen to anything”

Amazon Alexa (a virtual assistant AI technology) has a female voice. "For those of you that don't want Alexa listening in on your conversations, they're making a male version. . . it…

August 17, 2013
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“THINK before you text, tweet, facebook. Is it true, hurtful, illegal, necessary and kind?”

A "THINK" poster from a backronym of five words -- "Is it True, Hurtful, Illegal, Necessary, Kind?" -- was produced by the Waterloo Region of Ontario, Canada, to help combat…

March 15, 2022
Media/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet

“Think once before you act, twice before you speak, and three times before you post on Facebook”

"Think once before you act, twice before you speak, and three times before you post on Facebook" is a saying that has been printed on many images. Various forms of the saying were…

March 15, 2022
Media/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet

“Think once before you act, twice before you speak, and three times before you post on social media”

"Think once before you act, twice before you speak, and three times before you post on Facebook" is a saying that has been printed on many images. Various forms of the saying were…

March 15, 2022
Media/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet

“Think once before you act, twice before you speak, and three times before you post on Twitter”

"Think once before you act, twice before you speak, and three times before you post on Facebook" is a saying that has been printed on many images. Various forms of the saying were…

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