All through history people have tried to foresee the future. Now the SunTimes is making it easy for everybody. It's front page stories are written so anyone can become a prophet...!
Take just a few of your latest headlines: Sarah Palin Resigns...Iran blames Obama...North Korea fires missiles...Jackson family quarrel over will. I didn't check their bylines, but the way these reporters wrote these stories, any reader can now predict what's coming next. I mean, your stories write their own next headlines. Here I'll prove it:
* "Palin dumps low-paying Alaska job with no future for fat speech & TV gigs in 48; it's a beauty-over-brains market where Coulter & Limbaugh are yesterday's news!"
* "Mullahs got troubles; time to play the Great Satan ace-in-the-hole-card!"
* "North Korea gambles noisy stunts still get D.C. money; like Wall Street & Detroit whenever they need new bailouts!"
* "Hollywood never buries rich celebrity without everyone making bid for the bucks; the race is on!"
See...? Thanks to sharp coverage today, any reader can become a prophet tomorrow. No magic between incantations, just a few minutes between the lines. Now for my next prediction, I predict I'll be posting a fortune-teller ad in your weekend editions!
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Unfortunately, even the supposed "real" news has become similar to the mag rags. It's very unnerving to think that some (not all, but some) of the people that are "informing" of us of the world news act like "mean girls" in high school trying to spread the latest rumors and gossip!
ReplyDeleteEmily, I think that's dead on target!! The "mean girls" often get a way with it, but their meanness has only a short reach. The "mean" news-hawks unfortunately have a very long reach. I believe for every RIGHT a citizen has some RESPONSIBILITY. Too bad the gotcha media don't read the 1st amendment this way!
ReplyDeleteIt's true, the Sun-Times is only one pub that has the forecasting reporting though. I see that here as well. and speaking of headlines, some of those writers would do well to go back to school. We used to post them at work for everyone's amusement. Shades of "Throw Mamma from the train-----"
ReplyDeleteSo, Jerry, Florida journalism is just a predictive and predictable as Chicago journalism, eh?...of course what makes the prophosizing so much easier is the way these public figures make their moves...usually not very subtle...now if only I could anticipae the moves of teams and racehorses!
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