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Man on the Street Votes for 90% More News Anchor Beheadings
Category: media
Posted on: February 5, 2010 12:20 PM, by Sharon Astyk
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My son and I both agree and we are working on bullets and graphs. Epic.
Posted by: Ed Bryant | February 5, 2010 12:56 PM
Man, I haven't watched the news in AGES (people tell you when something that's actually important happens) and even I was laughing at how accurate that is!
Posted by: Melanie | February 5, 2010 1:07 PM
We are being swallowed up by the generic meta.
I'm going to steal this in a few days.
Posted by: Greg Laden | February 5, 2010 2:40 PM
As a counter - while also demonstrating the redeeming qualities of the media - here is one of the great spiritual anthems of our times, manifesting a spirit we need now more than ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrxRAvnU1FQ
Posted by: Joseph | February 5, 2010 3:31 PM
Go right ahead - I stole it from Rod Dreher ;-).
Sharon
Posted by: Sharon Astyk | February 5, 2010 4:57 PM
Reminds me strongly of E.B. White's "Irtnog"- written in 1938, forsooth. Hilarious terrifying.
Posted by: Greenpa | February 5, 2010 7:47 PM
"Hilariously".
Immediately after writing that note, I was inspired to google- the whole short story is up on the web- and I'd totally forgotten the last few lines. Wonderful!
Posted by: Greenpa | February 5, 2010 7:50 PM
Brilliant and scary at the same time! We don't watch the news but my kids were laughing at this one.
Posted by: Cath | February 5, 2010 7:52 PM
It's in the business of selling (or at least renting) your eyeballs.
Posted by: doug l | February 5, 2010 8:14 PM
Someone beat you to the punch
http://faultline.org/index.php/site/item/incendiary/
Posted by: ekdysiast | February 5, 2010 10:18 PM
The generic blog post has already been done. More than once...
Here is a good one:
http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2006/04/07/4991
It was done better on usenet of course as an illustrious commenter said in that string of replies.
Posted by: markk | February 7, 2010 4:27 PM
Thank you! I don't watch the news anymore--what especially appalls me is 'disaster coverage.'
Posted by: Simple in France | February 8, 2010 2:21 AM