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2007-08-24 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Great Adventures in Mainstream Media Fact-Checking, #247

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Posted by Mike 2007-08-24 09:23|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 Funny blog!

Amusing that MSNBC's correction confuses hoax and parody. Hoax, parody. Metaphor, simile. Lays, lies. Journalism be hard!

Hey, if it is any consolation to you all, reporters get paid for these bone-head errors, unlike you and me who just look like morons.

Posted by SteveS 2007-08-24 10:02|| 2007-08-24 10:02|| Front Page Top

#2 More like the underpaid 'research assistant' in a windowless room in Mumbai...

Posted by Pappy 2007-08-24 10:24|| 2007-08-24 10:24|| Front Page Top

#3 At one time in the past, a high school diploma meant something. Today, a college diploma [in journalism] meant something.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-08-24 12:39|| 2007-08-24 12:39|| Front Page Top

#4 For a given value of "something", Procopius2k. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2007-08-24 21:45|| 2007-08-24 21:45|| Front Page Top

#5 At one time in the past, a high school diploma meant something. Today, a college diploma [in journalism] meant something

MT: Master of Tense?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-08-24 22:09|| 2007-08-24 22:09|| Front Page Top

#6 How it is that Martin Luther King died so prematurely and Al Sharpton has managed to live for so long will forever remain an eternal mystery.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-08-24 23:52|| 2007-08-24 23:52|| Front Page Top

#7 Master of Tense?

Do you mean the past tense or the pretense?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-08-24 23:54|| 2007-08-24 23:54|| Front Page Top

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