{"id":5053,"date":"2013-04-01T05:01:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T09:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=5053"},"modified":"2013-04-01T00:45:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T04:45:06","slug":"whamit-acquisition-shocker-no-poverty-in-this-stimulus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2013\/04\/01\/whamit-acquisition-shocker-no-poverty-in-this-stimulus\/","title":{"rendered":"Whamit Acquisition Shocker 4\/1: No Poverty in This Stimulus"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has now been officially confirmed that Whamit!<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, the independent voice of MIT Linguistics<\/a><\/strong> for more than five years, has been acquired by Rupert Murdoch<\/a>’s Newscorp for almost $3.4 million dollars. \u00a0Though described by some as a “brazen attempt to silence a brave beacon of hope in a gray sea of otherwise identical boring linguistics<\/a> department<\/a> blogs<\/a> all starting with the letter wh<\/em>”, others have denied the presupposition, claiming that it is merely an implicature. \u00a0In a carefully worded statement released earlier today, Murdoch promised no “change in editoria<\/a>l” policy under his leadership. \u00a0”Whamit will continue to bring you those fabulous\u00a0pumpkin-carving pictures<\/a> \u00a0you love\u00a0each Halloween, and there is no current plan to curtail Whamit’s award-winning, hard-hitting\u00a0crime coverage<\/a>. \u00a0Only now we will do it with verve.” \u00a0Verve could not be reached for comment. \u00a0Meanwhile a viral video insisted “there will be some changes made<\/a>”, others beans, and still others expressed relief that Whamit had at least not been acquired by Fox<\/a> News. \u00a0Participating in the negotiations over the sale were over nineteen current MIT faculty, graduate students, recent alums, current visitors, former visitors and former alums. \u00a0Speaking off the record, noted semanticist Irene Heim commented that “it will take us the rest of our lifetime to drink the champagne that they spilled that evening”, but declined to elaborate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It has now been officially confirmed that Whamit!, the independent voice of MIT Linguistics for more than five years, has been acquired by Rupert Murdoch’s Newscorp for almost $3.4 million dollars. \u00a0Though described by some as a “brazen attempt to silence a brave beacon of hope in a gray sea of otherwise identical boring linguistics […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5053"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5061,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053\/revisions\/5061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}