Is
this article a really really early April Fool's joke or has the New York Times been mysteriously lobotomize/hacked/etc.?
In those same two-week November periods from 2000 to 2008, appearances of “irony” and its cognates tumbled 56 percent. Some of the drop seems to be because of the shrinking of newspapers, but a similar Nexis search with a
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