17 Feet Long; 26 Inches in DIAMETER; 207 Pounds ???
This isn’t just a ‘math’ issue ...
Look at the picture. I don’t buy 26 inches in CIRCUMFERENCE.
Didn’t journalism once have a basis in facts and reality ???
Oh, forgot. That is such an out-of-date notion ...
Not really. William Randolph Hearst was known to play loose with the facts. Yellow journalism as a term for slanted journalism has been around for over a hundred years. Yellow journalism was coined because Hearst's paper, the Journal American ran a comic strip called the Yellow Kid, in which the main character wore a yellow night shirt. Color was extremely rare in papers back then, so the bright splash of color was a novelty.
Anyway, Hearst made up a lot of stuff. Made Dan Rather look like a piker. He's only one example. There are many.