"Disrespected and dicked around"*

The staff of The New Republic quits out of solidarity with their former editors.

Good lads, themselves. For anyone unfamiliar with the concept, this is what a sense of honour looks like. And, most probably, what it costs to keep it.

(That said, as I recall, the king in 'The Red Wedding' did not 'stab everyone in person'. Or indeed anyone. In fact I don't remember him even being there. But the affair does very much resemble the new-media-buyout plot currently unfolding in The Newsroom. So props to Aaron Sorkin for having his finger on the cultural-political pulse, as usual.)

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* She's paraphrasing.

Only in English (literally) - GUEST ENTRY

"You know what happened last month, without anybody noticing? Webster's Dictionary expanded the definition of the word 'literally' to include the way it's commonly misused. So the thing is, we now no longer have a word in the English language that means 'literally'. 'Literally' doesn't have a synonym. So we're going to have the find a Latin word for it, and use it. But see, I don't know any Latin. So when I say that I am 'literally going to set fire to this building with you in it, before I hand over the keys to it', you don't know if I'm speaking figuratively or literally."

- The Newsroom