Popular Culture
The Chappe semaphore figures prominently in Alexandre Dumas, père's The Count of Monte Cristo. The Count bribes an underpaid operator to transmit a false message.
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“The lowest form of popular culture—lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives—has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.”
—Carl Bernstein (b. 1944)