How does today’s bullshit stack up next to yesterday’s?
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Our local shares its name with a left wing political party.
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Same old tired bullshit, new day. Next day, more of the same bullshit etc. etc. People are fooled by the newer bullshit constantly in order to make them believe all the new and improved more elaborately false bullshit tomorrow. When will it ever end? I quit believing all the media’s lies and bullshit and lies years ago.
It won’t ever end…..they are the Ministry of Truth.
The Weekly World News tabloid was less bullshitty.
I miss reading the outrageous headlines in The Weekly World News at the grocery store checkout line and laughing out loud making my wife look like she didn’t know me. The Weekly World News was like reading The Babylon Bee but even more outrageous and funny.
“BABY EATS CAR BATTERY” with a picture of a baby sitting on the ground next to a battery.
Years ago (1985?) Standing in the checkout line laughing…
Media carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved.
You have all experienced this, in what I call the Murray Gell-Mann
Amnesia effect. … Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You
open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well.
You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding
of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong
it actually presents the story backward — reversing cause and
effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s
full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple
errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or
international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper
was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you
just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I’d point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one
part, untruthful in all. But when it comes to the media, we
believe against evidence that it is probably worth our time to
read other parts of the paper. When, in fact, it almost certainly
isn’t. The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia.
—Michael Crichton
TRF, it’s a good thing that that baby didn’t eat an EV battery nowadays, that baby would probably spontaneously combust in a huge fireball. And it would be Trump’s fault for triple dog daring that poor baby to eat an EV car battery.
Where’s Bat Boy when you need him the most to give us all a good laugh?
Send a press release to or be interviewed by a reporter, then read the resulting article and you will be amazed at how the facts get garbled, names get mispelled, and quotes get taken out of context or oddly edited.
When you see your own words so distorted, it makes you suspicious of everything you read in the paper.
Bat boy lives! at http://www.weeklyworldnews.com
But I’m madder than a colorblind kid with a box of 64 Crayolas about the addition of some full color photos on the website. Look for the posts of Best Covers for good memories in the checkout lane.
We used to go to the drugstore and read some fake, some real headlines from those papers out loud.
“Monster eats Pope” was an all time hit. Lots of Italians around. 😁
Mad Magazine many years ago parodied the National Enquirer as The Irrational Perspirer with one of the pictures showing a big pile of steaming poop with flies buzzing around it saying that this is a big pile of you know what.
Little Morphin’ Annie AT 10:58 AM^^^^I was interviewed only once by a reporter and he misquoted both lines.
Newspapers.
Where you go to see the news you saw on the internet yesterday.
Bigfoot rapes nun, escapes in UFO.