So here's some balderdash: I went to Seattleweekly.com (first link) then I hit the News Tab (second link) and saw as the top choice for "News" was a link to this (three links total). Remember from the last run-on sentence how I was clicking on the "News" tab? How the fuck does pointing out how shitty Cosmopolitan's sex advice is make news?
A: It doesn't. That is not news. Nobody recently discovered that Cosmopolitan Magazine, despite years of accurate accounting, suddenly started offering bad sex advice. No scientist did a study on the effectiveness or accuracy of Cosmo's sex tips. They couldn't have done because Cosmo isn't news and scientists don't often pay attention to Cosmo. Some dumb cluck just wanted to get paid for writing, "Skid-marked or period-stained panties." I'd also like to point out that, "Skid-marked or period-stained panties," is not a sentence. Now I'm not the grammar police all that often but, come on. At least start a proper list before doing lists.
Like: Seattle Weekly has a (so-called) news article about Cosmopolitan Magazine's most recent list of sex advice. In it they list a few, more practical, things to not do when attending to a new lover, including leaving soiled drawrers, hair ties, unlocked cellphones or your STD medication.
If you are stupid enough to leave your Zovirax at a some guy's apartment that you just humped at for the first time, you should stop boning people outside of your family. Assuming you ever started. Idiot.
Remember to take your medication.
Showing posts with label false journalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label false journalism. Show all posts
Monday, September 13, 2010
This is what i'm talking about.
I was reading rawstory.com, via reddit, and there's this story about FoxNews running an OpEd about Obama's speech on the 8th of September. They, rawstory.com, go on a brewhaha about FoxNews editing the video of the speech to take negative phrases out of context and blame Obama for saying things he essentially didn't.
Of course, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart had caught this right away and put there comedic take on the situation. http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/352232/thu-september-09-2010-meghan-mccain 5:50-6:40 is the meat and potatoes of this shenanigan.
I mean, sure it's an opinion show and the content is not news report or journalism and it doesn't outwardly claim to be. But it's on Fox-FUCKING-News! Few people know that when they turn on FoxNews they're more likely to get an opinion show than a news report.
Stewart's show goes on a little later (7:50-8:13) with a hit on CNN confusing Tweets with news. Thanks TDSWJS.
And then there's this:
Of course, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart had caught this right away and put there comedic take on the situation. http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/352232/thu-september-09-2010-meghan-mccain 5:50-6:40 is the meat and potatoes of this shenanigan.
I mean, sure it's an opinion show and the content is not news report or journalism and it doesn't outwardly claim to be. But it's on Fox-FUCKING-News! Few people know that when they turn on FoxNews they're more likely to get an opinion show than a news report.
Stewart's show goes on a little later (7:50-8:13) with a hit on CNN confusing Tweets with news. Thanks TDSWJS.
And then there's this:
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