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“There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe… the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.” - See more at: http://www.vocus.com/invocus/media-blog/mark-twains-ap-no-more/#sthash.YUPKKiTN.dpuf

If you weren't worried about the end of civilization before, worry now.The Associated Press, my employer for eight years back when words meant something, has now decreed thatis a suitable synonym forEarth to AP: The rest of us know it isn't.“There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe, "Mark Twain wrote, "the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.”Oh right, Mark.He also wrote: "The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—’tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning."Do you really want to read that, "New York's population isAlabama's."? How would they get up there?Or that winter is finallyOr that the AP's reputation is alsoI don't.A lot of people won't getthis. As one journalist wrote , "I felt a disturbance in the force."