Medlar Comfits: Will you have fries with your twenty hamburgers, fifty shakes . . .

27 October 2010

Will you have fries with your twenty hamburgers, fifty shakes . . .

The body of journalism needs burial or cremation. Another typical story, this in today's "BREAKING NEWS" from Murdoch/AAP.

Boulders hidden in bags placed on freeway

A LATE-NIGHT prank on one of Melbourne's main freeways has damaged two vehicles.
Two boulders had been hidden inside McDonald's take-away paper bags and placed on the EastLink Freeway …

2 comments:

Adam Browne said...: I don't get it - are you saying this is bad reportage?; 22 November 2010 at 22:43
anna tambour said...: Sorry to be confusing. I don't put this in the same category as what Rupert Murdoch has done to reportage and journalism. But it's that tiny drip that erodes away meaning, that I am taking a swipe at. This is a non-story that was made into a story by the use of gross exaggeration. A boulder is something that a man can hide behind. A boulder is what Wile E. Coyote strains at. A boulder needs two men at least to lift, and if it can fit into a McDonald's take-away paper bag, that's some whopper of a SuperSize Meal.; 24 November 2010 at 10:16

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