Friday, July 26, 2019

fishermen ain't the biggest liars


I've been laid up for a week with a foot injury but the long term wound will be to my already weakened brain, from exposure to television. In the course of this marathon Orlando's WKMG has been running a montage designed to convince people how great their news show is, how honest they are and how they're just out there making everybody's lives better in the community.

Somehow they feel it's important to give the impression that one of their female reporters goes fishing, probably to bolster the “just folks” feeling. In aid of this goal they show her pretending to cast a spinning rod.from a seawall. Apparently nobody at that station ever went fishing or even knows what fishing is, especially her, because no one on Earth can cast a spinning rod they way she's holding it. It's far worse, even, then upside down spinning reel syndrome.

My question is, “If they can't even be trusted to put together an ad without trying to deceive their viewers, then how much peanut butter is really on the moon?
Spread this level of integrity over the entire country, local and national news, exaggerate it commensurate with the perceived size of a given story and that's an awful lot of cream cheese buttocks in Peoria. And why shouldn't we?

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous5:42 PM

    Amen brother. Where does it start? Stop? Who knows but it runs deep. I resently was reminded how gulable i am . i believed i would get a free cruise when i leased a vehicle. But its a con game..good thing i didnt choose that car for that reason. Feeling foolish tho

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  2. Anonymous7:42 PM

    that car went far until it stuck upon a star but there was buise on that crooze and they say, a candy bar

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