Thursday, August 19, 2021

Notes From All Over -- The "Remote Texas City" Edition -- August 19, 2021

Link here. I saw the headline in The NYT but never clicked on the link because I assumed it was about some little town in west Texas -- oil town Midland or Odessa. It turns out that "remote" little town was New Braunfels. 

Oh, give me a break. Hardly "remote" or "outlying" -- sits just north of San Antonio on the I-35 north to Austin, perhaps the busiest thoroughfare in Texas. When The NYT got mocked for using the word "remote" to describe New Braunfels, the newspaper changed "remote" to "outlying." 

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Oh, The Irony

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