Just now I clicked on a link that took me to a poll on the Fox News Web site, and I noticed (for the first time, really) their logo. I've long thought that their motto was "fair and balanced," (we can debate the veracity of that), but it turns out that it's actually "Fair & Balanced," with an ampersand.
And I quote, directly from my AP Stylebook: "The ampersand should not otherwise be used in place of and."
Philosophical inclinations aside, I simply can't place my trust in a news organization that can't follow basic rules of punctuation. Unless "Fair" and "Balanced" are the names of people who work within the Fox News organization, the use of the ampersand is just plain wrong.
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