Are there still journalism schools out there? If so, when people graduate where do they work? Obviously not at the MSN web-site and their news headline. Just a little point to the folks there, the trillions of dollars are not fighting the bailout, they are the bailout.
If there are journalism schools out there, it seems now that a required course is "How to Come Up With Bad Puns for Headlines." The really crap papers have been doing this for quite some time, but now the Tribune is doing it. I've never liked their editorial stands, but they have had some renown for their journalism. But they lost it, it must be something with printing it tabloid style.
Communication everywhere now just sucks. People and organizations, who are in the business of communicating, have forgotten how to do it. The aforementioned Trib, in an effort to save paper (though for cost rather than environmental reasons) has gotten into twittering information in the baseball standings. They feel the need to put some information about each team in the standings, but leave themselves only about 140 characters to do it. Today's tidbit was the last time each team pulled off a triple play.
Watching my White Sox yesterday, they were posting blatantly inaccurate information up on the screen - wrong averages, and they even showed you how they calculated them!
Last week on the Today Show, Matt Lauer was chatting with Fox News Analyst Laura Ingraham. The title had something about Obama apologizing to Europe. I would have expected Ingraham to be the one saying he had apologized (he hadn't) but it was NBC who was putting out the misinformation. I guess the truth just doesn't sell anymore.
I'm reading today about the heroic rescue effort in saving the captain from the pirates. It was darned good shooting, but it was not heroic. If they hit the pirates, he's saved. If they missed, he was dead. The rescuers didn't risk a thing, it was really cool, but not heroic.
The pirates are upset. They remind me of the conservatives who were angry when President Carter ceded the Panama Canal back to Panama. "We stole it fair and square!" I wonder what the Somali word for aaargh is.
I guess I am just old fashioned. I should be able to show more creativity and could have said the above in less than 140 characters.
Phil Spector was just convicted of murder. His mistake was not using the Wall of Sound to muffle the gun shots.
I got that in under 140 characters!
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