Trust No One
It’s fashionable to question the veracity of news that appears in the mainstream media for no other reason than it is the mainstream media that presents it. This, of course, gets the mainstream media’s panties in a wad. “We are professional!” they’ll proclaim. “We have fact checkers, editors, producers, ombudsmen, and many other people whose job it is to make sure that you are properly informed, whereas bloggers have no oversight, no experience, and no accountability.” And to a certain extent they’re right. Then they pull shit like this, and blow themselves out of the (six inches of) water. Classic.
My husband and I have joked to our coworkers that when we leave this News Organization we are going to write a book about the Owners, News Directors, Producers etc…
Many of them, who actually think we might do this, have expressed veiled fear in their hearts at what we might expose. Others, who know we’re joking (or are we?) have said to me, “Just don’t write anything that will get me fired.”
I imagine we’d be sued by The Company if we followed up on this fantasy, so help me come up with some good fake names to protect the guily.
Hugh G. Rection
Haywood Jablomi
Anita Johnson
Connie Lingus
Ben Dover
Clint Torious
I meant to comment on this earlier, but now I’m so tired all I can do is clap like a monkey and say “blgehios”.
Also I’m not reading your Al Gore post. I’m not. I know it’s just going to irritate me because I think it’s the one place we disagree on things. So I’m not going to read it.
Hehehe, how’d that work out for you?
I’m going back and re-reading several of your post because I need a good laugh.
…..that’s a compliment, by the way…..
Just in case you were wondering….
The pictures are just as funny. I don’t know where you find them but they kill me.
Well thanks!
(And by the way, that’s what the roulette wheel on the right is for: Reliving old posts.)
Smooth. When the going gets wet, get a canoe.
Maybe she had seen this Ad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-zIeJ01oJU
Boy, do I wish your blog would let me comment.
Hahahaha. Oops.