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Patrick Degan wrote:
neoolong wrote:I'm just waiting for a headline that goes:

"Absolutely nothing of any importance happened today."
Especially not in Sector 24 x 18 x 5.

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Spice Runner wrote:Yeah I'm damned tired of hearing about the Laci Peterson case. Why the hell is it getting so much attention?
Slow news days.

It seems that the media picks some insignificant things to report on. I wouldn't be surprised if at a given time, someone was saying "Right now, we are interviewing a secretary who was in a nearby bathroom when Cheney told Leahy to go fuck himself. Did you notice anything when he said- I have been handed a breaking news bulletin. Only a few minutes ago, John Kerry has appeared in a photo op where he looks funny."
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Dennis Toy wrote:
I'm sick of Exaggerated stories, for example, Fox-5 News in DC is notorious for flashy exaggerated stories about mundane stuff. One such report was about DANGEROUS FIREPLACE DOORS THAT ARE TOO HOT...

cool. what did they suggest to do? cold fire? PU boards for insulation?

i dont remember, i didn't see it all..


remember when G.W. bush choked on that pretzel? they exaggerated that story also.
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Stormbringer wrote:No, the Congressman's intern/murdered lover wasn't Laci Peterson. It was Chandra Levy. And right now I'm slightly horrified I know that.
Meh. Shows you how much attention I pay to disappearence cases.
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Dennis Toy wrote:

i dont remember, i didn't see it all..


remember when G.W. bush choked on that pretzel? they exaggerated that story also.
Yeah they elided the fact that he actually choked on Tony Blair's dick.
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Jon wrote:
Dennis Toy wrote:i dont remember, i didn't see it all..

remember when G.W. bush choked on that pretzel? they exaggerated that story also.
Yeah they elided the fact that he actually choked on Tony Blair's dick.
I thought it was the other way around: Tony Blair is choking on George W. Bush's dick.

Anyway, news of exaggerated importance is somewhat different from "news" of information which should already be obvious to anyone who isn't retarded.
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As the Simpsons put it:

(Headline on newspaper): "Doctors say sleep is good for you"
(smaller print below) "Country suffers from slow news day"
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