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The Chicago Tribune has been calling itself "The World's Greatest Newspaper" since Chicago first had a world's fair (1893). It would own a newspaper and a television station…
The Chicago Tribune has been calling itself "The World's Greatest Newspaper" since Chicago first had a world's fair (1893). It would own a newspaper and a television station…
Facebook is an online social media website that allows users to "like" posts. A joke was posted on Twitter by Chris on April 23, 2011: "The world's most prolific Facebook user…
"The worst thing about censorship is -- " -- the last part is blacked out -- is a saying that has been printed on many images. The censorship saying has been cited in print since at least…
"There are no dull stories, only dull reporters/writers/authors" is often said about newspaper writing and other writing. Longtime New York City newspaper columist Franklin Pierce Adams…
"There is nothing new under the sun" is from Ecclesiastes 1:9 of the Bible. By at least 1900, it was said that "there are no new stories under the sun." Each story is similar to…
"There are so many scams on the Internet now-a-days. Send me $19.95 and I will tell you how to avoid them" is a jocular saying that has been printed on many images. "There’s no…
"There are two sides to every story" is a very old proverb; the Greek writer Aesop (620-564 BCE) in the fable "The Mule" wrote that "every truth has two sides." For an…
American computer scientist and Yale University professor Alan Perlis (1922-1990) wrote "Epigrams on Programming" for ACM's SIGNPLAN (September 1982). One popular epigram is:…
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…
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…
"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…
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…
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…
"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…
"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…
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…
"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…
"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,"…
"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,"…
"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…