CNN has taken down its laughable story from Monday but if you Google "CNN Sanford solved" right now you can find at least the embarassing headline how the story began:
"MYSTERY SOLVED: South Carolina Governor Taking a Hike -- CNN.com
A mystery surrounding the whereabouts of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford was apparently solved late Monday when a Sanford spokesman..."
If you click that story, though, they've demurely replaced it with their latest account of him returning to his office.
These people are supposed to be *journalists*!! You know, as in finding things out!
Accurately informing us, the unknowing! Why would they post that kind of pablum crap?
And yet the Washington Post was running the same indefensible "Solved" headline in its electronic editions Monday. It gave such a sense of closure, and banality, that probably relatively few readers bothered clicking to Chris Cillizza's story which upon a close read didn't indicate that any part of it was solved. And apparently this idiocy was regurgitated by so-called journalists across the USA. How unbelievably embarassing!
Josh was sure right when he said the South Carolina staff did great presswork getting all these buffoons to reprint their propaganda. Fabulous job! :(
This is an old USSR joke you might know; the pair are making their way along the street, one digging holes in dirt, and his colleague filling them up as fast as they are dug. Why so, wonders a bystander? They explain that there should be third guy planting saplings into each of the holes, but he called in sick.
Today an eyewitness told me something vaguely related actually happened just last summer in ex-USSR: A tram full of passengers was rolling at midday along the tracks from the outskirts of a regional city straight into the downtown. Right as the car turned into the central downtown area, it halted in a commotion, and the driver of the bright red tram emerged from the cab and after a bit announced that the tram would run no further.
Why, the disturbed passengers protested?! Well, hurried (?) workmen had been sloppy (to be
very polite!) and in the few minutes between passing trams had managed to (i) bury one
of the rails under a heavy quantity of fresh asphalt, (ii) quickly steamroll their
creation, and (iii) leave the scene entirely.
My friend was on board, and she walked off in hysterics upon
understanding
what had happened (with the passengers alternately shouting and
marveling at it all).
(I know this sounds fanciful, but the lass in question is not the sort to tell tales -- this happened! LOL!)
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