

"Disney pulls 'Wolf' from Mann in Dispute". The Los Angeles Times from 1983 to 1999 by Deborah Caulfield, Jay Sharbutt, Dennis McDougal, Charles Champlin, Nancy Wride, and Stephen Braun " 'Now let's say we do that in time, if through some occult hand that occurs. Los Angeles Times – Washington Post News Service. "NBC Chief Tinker finds it a slow trip to programming high road".".the patrol car appeared behind him as if deposited there by an occult hand." " 'Fer Shur, fer shur,' CB airwaves become a jungle".The Los Angeles Times–Washington Post News Service in 19 by unknown

"Even worse, with some E-mail systems, if the writer doesn't fill in the subject line, the occult hand of artificial intelligence will enter No Subject." "INCOMING Well Versed in E-Mail Subject Lines". "Wonders if Cyprus events might have been 'organized by some occult hand' as part of W Eur global strategy." "UN Gen Assembly 29th session opens on Sept 17. The New York Times in 1974 by Paul Hofmann and in 1998 by Tim Race The phrase and parameters vary from challenge to challenge. The goal of the contest is to “encourage and recognize" the best use of a meaningless telltale phrase in a published news article within a specified time frame. In 2020, the Fourth Estate announced an "Order of the Occult Hand" journalism challenge. In 2006, Greenberg announced that the Order had chosen a new secret phrase at an annual editorial writers' convention and resumed a stealth operation.
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Upon exposure to the public, Greenberg made a full confession. The Order was occasionally endangered by reckless and artless users of the phrase, but it retained overall secrecy until 2004, when James Janega of the Chicago Tribune published a thorough investigation about the Order. The use of the phrase has spread to newspaper media around the world like "a cough in a classroom" and "a pox". The occult-hand phrase did not stop in the Charlotte News and Observer, but has crept onto other media.


The Boston Globe once reported that the Occult Hand Club was a replacement for the Defective Busbar Club, which was open to any journalist who used the word, such as in "the cause of the fire was attributed to a defective busbar, officials said." Īlternatively, Paul Greenberg, the Pulitzer prize-winning editorial page editor of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, claimed that Reese Cleghorn, then an editorial writer of The Charlotte Observer, was the one who originated the Order. The News revealed this tradition of high spirits, how it started, in 1985, when it went out of circulation. The editors were not happy about this mischief at all and ordered copy editors to be extremely vigilant, yet the phrase kept slipping into the paper and even into Down Beat, a jazz magazine, by Smith. Smith, an associate editor Stewart Spencer, then an editorial writer John Gin, the city editor and several others, who vowed to get the words into print as soon as possible. They even showed Flanders a banner made of a bed sheet depicting a bloody hand reaching out of a purple cloud. Amused by this purple passage, in a local bar, his colleagues decided to commemorate Flanders's achievement by forming the Order of the Occult Hand.
