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You know that feeling that you should be having fun, but you’re not? When going out makes you feel lonelier than staying in? This Brit chalks it up to the raw fact that ‘clubbing’ is a verb equivalent to ’sucking.’
“Clubs are such insufferable dungeons of misery, the inmates have to take mood-altering substances to make their ordeal seem halfway tolerable. This leads them to believe they ‘enjoy’ clubbing. They don’t. No one does. They just enjoy drugs.”
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Charlie Brooker: Nightclubs are hell. What’s cool or fun about a thumping, sweaty dungeon full of posing idiots? The Guardian
Just when you start to believe that money can’t buy everything in life, least of all integrity, reality swoops in and crushes our naive collegiate and free-spoken hearts. Maybe it was a little credulous of us to think that the Bancroft family would have ripped the “Welcome” mat out from under Rupert Murdoch’s grubby little tentacles, but we were really looking forwards to seeing Dow Jones proverbially slap Murdoch across his face with their wallets.
Apparently, said wallets are running a little to low for their tastes. CNN reports that the Bancrofts have actually accepted News Corp.’s $5 billion buyout offer.
We’re not the only ones surprised, though. Most of the reports from the media on Monday were doubtful of the acquisition, and we feel misled; misled and betrayed. More on this to come, probably.
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FOX News, the predominant American bastion of conservative truth, plans to debut the unedited footage from ABC’s “The Path to 9/11″ docu-drama. Bravo, FNC. At least you’re openly admitting to showcasing fictionalized accounts of the truth.
ABC aired the film back in Sept. 10/11 and was lambastad for having a bias against the Clinton administration and its position on terrorism. Media Matters says:
The Path to 9/11 drew sharp criticism from former Clinton administration officials, journalists, and conservatives who noted that significant parts of the “docudrama’s” content were not supported by the 9-11 Commission’s findings, despite the claims of ABC and writer Cyrus Nowrasteh that the film was largely based on the commission’s report.
So who can you count to tell you the real story about inconsequential truths? Read more after the jump.
Pablo Escobar’s hippos are vicious escape artists much like the infamous drug lord himself, according to The Los Angeles Time.
Colombian authorities might soon turn guns against the aquatic beasts, again mirroring the life of Mr. Escbobar who died under a torrent of police bullets.
Four hippos stocked a man made lake on Escobar’s pleasure palace 100 miles east of Medellin. The other creatures in his menagerie joined Colombian zoos or were left to die after Escobar’s downfall. Not the hippos. They prospered, quadrupling in numbers. Apparently, they are quite a nuisance and may be systematically shot to death if no advocates surface to their defense. (Nature people, where are you guys on this?)
Escobar’s coke hippos might be the best metaphor for the relationship between the illegal drug trade and government to ever snort water and wiggle their bottoms. Below the surface and menacing, they grow in size even when the kingpin is removed. They dramatically threaten the social order and cause the government to retaliate destructively and violently. Make hippo reserves, not war.
Oh, man. What’s the world coming to? What kind of world do we live in when we can’t trust the journalists whose work we never read in newspapers or whose broadcasts we ignore while watching the Heroes marathon on TV?
I mean, what’s this about graduate journalism students at Columbia cheating on their final exams? Editor and Publisher says that about 200 students enrolled in a class titled “Critical Issues in Journalism” have to attend a special session. If they don’t show up, they fail.
While graduate school is likely an option for us Culture Warriors, we find it tough to believe that anyone has to really try to cheat when
[t]he exam was an open-book, take-home exam in which students had 90 minutes to write a few essays.
By the way, a core part of the class dealt with journalism ethics.
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