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On Saturday, 30 December 2017 14:32:32 GMT Wols Lists wrote: |
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> On 30/12/17 12:55, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > [2nd random OT factoid] |
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> > It's the "world series" because the first sponsor was a newspaper "News |
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> > of the World" iirc (plus some typical US bravado) |
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> Actually it was the New York World. So actually imho it was originally |
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> perfectly legit. |
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I don't agree. In that case it should have been called the New York World |
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Series. |
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> As usual, however, things change, meanings change, and now it gives |
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> completely the wrong impression. |
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All true, alas. |
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> [3rd random OT factoid] |
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> The News Of The World was a British tabloid |
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A Sunday "newspaper", popularly known as the Screws of the World - no |
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hardship guessing why. I can't imagine how they managed to sell a single |
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copy. |
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> which shut down after the phone hacking scandal - a lot of their stories |
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> were obtained by hacking into celebrities, politicians, royals voicemails, |
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> and while it was very hard to prove it was also blatantly obvious that |
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> journalists were acting under pressure, if not actual orders, from the |
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> very top. |
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They had it coming, didn't they? |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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