1. There are many four-letter words in the controversial 1991 recording that started it all.
2. There are longer and expensive words in the legal briefs that followed... alluded to in this interview and transcribed in the book FAIR USE: The Story of the Letter U and the Numeral 2. (Although not traditional journalism, the interview is also useful in class discussions of reporters' ethics.)
   

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  Wired's Eliot Van Buskirk: And what do you think of blockbusters like The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report, who mash C-SPAN footage and other snoozy political crap into hilarious new packages? Has hyper-reality come of age at last?

  Negativland's Mark Hosler: We kinda had this idea back in the early '90s that collage would become one of the next millennium's pre-eminent styles and art forms, and that the kind of work we were doing, which seemed so transgressive and edgy at the time, would one day become a very normal mainstream art practice. With the explosion of mashups and collage in the last five years or so, I think we are seeing this come true. It's pretty wild. And what's not to love about two TV shows that essentially teach media literacy? They're great.

Ironic juxtaposition department:

The original U2 song, "I still haven't found what I'm looking for," could be a theme for Google. So I did a quick search...

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