A brass megaphone sends out radiating golden light above red cloth against deep crimson.

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This is Rumor Control. Here are the facts!

— Alien 3  ·  1992

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What it means

Our interpretation.

An announcer introduces a service called Rumor Control and promises to deliver the facts. The line sets up a corrective role: speculation is to be replaced by plain, authoritative information, delivered with the brisk confidence of an official bulletin meant to settle what people have been saying.

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