stackyFACTSPredicting the future is incredibly difficult for print media. The New York Times boldly published an article claiming flying machines would take a million years to develop, just days before the Wright Brothers successfully took off.
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The birth of American journalism was essentially a very rapid abortion. In 1690, a man named Benjamin Harris published 'Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and…
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Before glowing rectangles, everyone started their mornings staring at massive folded sheets of cheap paper covered in smudge-prone ink. Attempting to properly…
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Pettiness in journalism knows absolutely no bounds. A major newspaper held such a massive grudge against a specific politician that they flatly refused to…
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The daily press traditionally involves chopping down trees to print massive sheets detailing everything awful that happened twenty-four hours ago. Your…
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Patience is enforced by electrical circuitry. The podium buttons literally do not function until the host completes the entire excruciatingly slow joke in the…
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Director Ridley Scott kept the cast of the 1979 sci-fi horror film Alien completely in the dark about the details of the infamous chestburster scene,…
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