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6 September 2007
The ship that’s front fell off
Australian Senator discussing of an oil disaster. Even the great Monty Python couldn’t have written this dialog. It would be hilarious if it wouldn’t be so scary.
Host: So what do you do to protect the environment?
Senator: The Ship was towed out of the environment
H: Into another environment?
S: No, no. Been towed beyond the environment. […]
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17 August 2007
Biased broadcasting
Source: Yahoo and AFP, August 14th
Can someone say what’s wrong with this picture? The text says “An elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets which she says hit her house following and early coalition forces raid in the predominantly Shiite Baghdad suburb of Sadr City. (AFP/Wissam al-Okaili)”
I wouldn’t like to correct the Associated French Press, but […]
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13 August 2007
“Fuck the average reader”
David Simon interviewed by Nick Hornby himself.
The most important message of the interview follows:
“My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: fuck the average reader. I was always told to write for the average reader in my newspaper life. The average reader, as they meant […]
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14 February 2007
H&M bikini ad = pedophilia? Not
Pedophilia. Hah, got your attention now not to mention loads of google hits. Pedophilia has lately been widely broadcasted in Finnish media. Specially the pedophilistic material one can so easily find in the wild wild internet. I think it has something to do with the fact that the elections are coming to town. According to […]