Sunday, July 27, 2008

During a tour of the China Daily news building, I noticed an employee had circled this article from that day's edition. In red marker he or she wrote "Why do we publish this crap?"

I'll take a crack at that one, even though I don't work there.

Maybe, because this is some seriously newsy shit. A product of Journalism school, I was taught one of the ways to define newsworthiness was something unusual.
For this author, a displeasing wife was standard. But those were his first three marriages. Now, he's finally found wedded bliss in his current marriage to a 22 year-old blonde, crater-faced, ex- (but will never live it down) cheerleader who microwaves him meat lover's Bagel Bites and fondles his junk while he hacks away on his battle-scarred PC, smearing grease all over the I'm-a-shitty-journalist-and-a-flagrant-misogynist-button, which his penis fingers cannot avoid pressing by mistake.

Whoever would object to the publication of this story is clearly having marital problems and should leave them at home with their displeasing wife to iron out...and wash, and dust, and have sautéed and on the table when they return.


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