"When the Washington Post unveiled the slogan
'Democracy Dies in Darkness,' on February 17, 2017,
people in the news business made fun of it.
'Sounds like the next Batman movie,' the New York Times’
executive editor, Dean Baquet, said."
— Louis Menand in The New Yorker ,
"When Americans Lost Faith in the News," Jan. 30, 2023.
See also Darkness in this journal.
Not so dark:
A Log24 post from February 17, 2017
regarding that year's Groundhog Day — The dies natalis
(in the Catholic sense) of St. Bertram Kostant.