#1 2008-07-18 14:25:13
I've babbled endlessly about this, and my fellow High Street residents responded with a resounding "Um, yeah. Sure. Hey, did you see the naked babe who farts on cakes?" The next step, obviously, is to open a thread in which we can begin to post our nominees for High Street's awards for shitty journalism but there are rules. Of course there are, and these will be the rules until George decides otherwise.
1) Anything posted in this thread must first have appeared as a posting of its own on High Street.
2) Nothing from Local 6. Come on. I love Local 6. You love Local 6. It's just too easy.
3) The posting must be from a recognized, mainstream news source. In other words, Worldnetdaily.com doesn't count.
4) Nominations for 2009's awards ends Dec. 31, 2008. Winners will be announced Friday, Feb. 13, 2009.
5) Winners will be determined in some manner to be selected by the women of High Street who will make these determinations anyway.
We can hash out categories as 2008 slowly but inexorably wends its way to a bleak but dismal finale.
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#2 2008-07-20 10:24:09
It's nice to see some-body taking the initiative with this. Now we just need a little statuette-type award resembling Ted Knight so that we've some-thing to present to the wieners. You've all-ready seen my first entry; But, to make it official:
Palm Beach, Florida's WPTV proudly presents Eric Glasser.
For the category of "Dry-Heave Inducing Pun," Eric offers us this little gem (With "bonus points" for employing said pun in an incomplete sentence, and italicizing the key-word in his dry-heave inducing attempt at humor to ensure that no-body over-looks his shame):
Eric Glasser wrote:
The economy, taking a bite out of people's wallets to the point of dental desperation.
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#3 2008-07-20 10:46:38
Decadence wrote:
Palm Beach, Florida's WPTV proudly presents Eric Glasser.
Face alone wins some prize.
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#4 2008-07-20 11:16:01
1) Anything posted in this thread must first have appeared as a posting of its own on High Street.
I know I saw this posted here, but of course when I go to search for it I can't find it. This is from right here in my new home town:
There's nothing terribly wrong with the reporting, the composition or the tone...except for that one little detail where ABSOLUTELY NO ONE INVOLVED KNOWS WHAT THE BLEEDING FUCK THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT.
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#5 2008-07-22 14:40:54
Originally posted by Orangeplus. Reporter appears to be encouraging confrontation between two women over incident with a Pit bull.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/200 … brawl.wnwo
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#6 2008-07-22 15:08:24
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#7 2008-07-22 15:16:51
Let's go live to Dave with the weather...
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#8 2008-07-22 15:20:54
While both submissions are amusing and lovely in their own right, I'm not sure I would say that either is actually an example of bad journalism. One is just an outtake, not a news report of any kind, and the other is simply an example of yet another idiot on camera.
Nice tries but no cookies.
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#9 2008-07-22 18:02:13
I posted this just so I could nominate it.
The camera caught Pierce, a Monroe resident, with his shoes kicked off. He was curled up on a hammock pad. The assembly instructions for the collapsed hammock lay next to him.
Burress, of Everett, was photographed with his mouth open, sawing logs on pink patio-furniture pillows. A canvas barbecue cover was pulled up to his chin.
July mornings can still be chilly.
The officer called for backup.
Pierce and Burress slept another 20 minutes while the officer took more pictures and waited for a sergeant to join him.
The suspects' wake-up call was a cop reading them their rights.
I was taken by the story's Hemingway-like simplicity.
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#10 2008-07-22 19:29:52
headkicker_girl wrote:
I was taken by the story's Hemingway-like simplicity.
And yet, almost Joycean in its lack of narrative cohesion. I was expecting the moo-cow to come through at any moment.
I mean, really, what a waste of a good Dumb Young Criminals report. But hey, it's better than combing the local blotters.
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#11 2008-07-23 21:17:53
It doesn't meet your qualifications but it also doesn't merit its own thread, so here we go:
Fake coffee on a Fox local news set
But wait, here’s the best part: They’re not real. Fake coffee on the real news, two plastic cups permanently filled with some kind of bogus drink. The anchors aren’t even supposed to acknowledge them, McDonald’s reps explain. That’s part of their genius, my little lambs! They get into your mind without you knowing it. So they just sit there, two logo-emblazoned plastic cups, percolating into the psyche. Made-to-scale models that weigh something like seven pounds each — refreshing, and bottom-line boosting!
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#12 2008-07-23 21:23:56
jesusluvspegging wrote:
It doesn't meet your qualifications but it also doesn't merit its own thread, so here we go:
Actually, it is worthy of note. It wasn't all that long ago the Los Angeles Times began its inexorable slide downward with its efforts to "break down the wall between the newsroom and advertising" or something to that effect. I say it's a worthy contribution.
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#13 2008-07-23 21:31:37
jesusluvspegging wrote:
It doesn't meet your qualifications but it also doesn't merit its own thread, so here we go:
Fake coffee on a Fox local news set
What an odd coincidence. I PM'd that exact link to Sofie this morning.
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