Thursday, December 28, 2006

Are Journalists Idiots?


Or do they just make up good stories? Way back when, I knew a gal who wrote stories for one of the supermarket tabloids. They would send her a picture and she would write a story to go with it. Her stories were so, ahem, imaginative that they moved her down, or is that up, to one of their wilder publications. Anyway, take a gander at the picture of the "Bradleys" to the left and then read the rest of the story.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have mentioned before that I came to the conclusion they were morons when I was a farmer. They blathered on about agriculture as if they were experts and the truth is they did not know the difference between a holstein and an angus. Literally. On a 60 Minutes special entitled White Gold Mike Wallace was droning on with a picture of a beef cow in the background. Beef, dairy they are all bovine to the journalists busily portraying farmers as parasites.

I thought then, if these people are as screwed up about everything else as they are about farming, how many lies do they tell everyday?

gumshoe said...

there was a great "WILEY" cartoon strip a few years ago....

a pear-shaped,frazzled journo with a dart in his hand,facing a tackboard with labels describing multiple topics: economimcs,space flight,
atomic science,tort law,etc.

the caption over the top over the tackboard said:

"TODAY I AM AN EXPERT IN..."