That liberal media again
This article (and I could have found hundreds like it) starts: 'SO FAR unscathed by rumours of a two-year-long affair with a 24-year-old journalist, the United States senator John Kerry ' before going on to mention, with a seemingly straight face, that 'the only potential (Kerry) scandal is not even being discussed in most mainstream media'
It'd be nice if it were, because it's clearly a bunch of the usual unsourced Drudge horseshit, but do these people not actually look at the other media before they mention it. It took me five seconds to do a Google News search for 'kerry affair' which found 782 hits, surely it's not too much to expect a supposedly professional journalist to do the same?
The point is this - it's a rumour from a website that's well known for reproducing large barrels of crap around the occasional nugget of truth, and to just print it and say 'well, it's a rumour, but what if it's true?' is not responsible journalism, it's gossip-mongering. I've seen lots of crazed rumours about Bush on the web over the last few years, but I've never seen an article that starts 'So far unscathed by rumours that he's the preferred candidate of the Bavarian Illuminati, and plans to sell the population Earth as slaves to his masters from Sirius, US President George Bush...' Now, why might that be?
It'd be nice if it were, because it's clearly a bunch of the usual unsourced Drudge horseshit, but do these people not actually look at the other media before they mention it. It took me five seconds to do a Google News search for 'kerry affair' which found 782 hits, surely it's not too much to expect a supposedly professional journalist to do the same?
The point is this - it's a rumour from a website that's well known for reproducing large barrels of crap around the occasional nugget of truth, and to just print it and say 'well, it's a rumour, but what if it's true?' is not responsible journalism, it's gossip-mongering. I've seen lots of crazed rumours about Bush on the web over the last few years, but I've never seen an article that starts 'So far unscathed by rumours that he's the preferred candidate of the Bavarian Illuminati, and plans to sell the population Earth as slaves to his masters from Sirius, US President George Bush...' Now, why might that be?
Nick got away with this at 6:38 AM
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