Posted on 01/17/2008 1:39:22 PM PST by dighton
An Iowahawk Special Investigative Report
With Statistical Guidance from the New York Times
A Denver newspaper columnist is arrested for stalking a story subject. In Cincinnati, a television reporter is arrested on charges of child molestation. A North Carolina newspaper reporter is arrested for harassing a local woman. A drunken Chicago Sun-Times columnist and editorial board member is arrested for wife beating. A Baltimore newspaper editor is arrested for threatening neighbors with a shotgun. In Florida, one TV reporter is arrested for DUI, while another is charged with carrying a gun into a high school. A Philadelphia news anchorwoman goes on a violent drunken rampage, assaulting a police officer. In England, a newspaper columnist is arrested for killing her elderly aunt.
Unrelated incidents, or mounting evidence of that America’s newsrooms have become a breeding ground for murderous, drunk, gun-wielding child molesters? Answers are elusive, but the ever-increasing toll of violent crimes committed by journalists has led some experts to warn that without programs for intensive mental health care, the nation faces a potential bloodbath at the hands of psychopathic media vets.
“These people could snap at any minute,” says James Treacher of the Treacher Institute for Journalist Studies. “We need to get them the help and medication they need before it’s too late.”
LOL. Very clever.
IowaHawk - hilarious as always!
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Absolute and utter genius. It’s the craftsmanship of it.
Yes, Iowahawk very much on his game with this one. Exposes the NYT slam on our military for the garbage it was.
PIng to Iowahawk’s latest.
We need reporter registration!
No print media without a (Gov’t issued) permit!
Confiscate their laptops!
Where’s that Brady bunch?
Serial numbers tatooed on every reporter’s forehead.
Personally, I think they should tattoo “I’m a moron” on their foreheads. We’d immediately know they’re journalists.
Who do these reporters think they are....
Cops?
"These idealistic kids show up at J-School, hoping to change the world and become the next Woodward and Bernstein or Edgar R. Murrow," says Owens. "The next thing you know they're taking Comparative Lit under some tenured Po-Mo drill instructor, and they just totally snap."
LOL!!!
Oh, to have only the talent that Iowahawk has in his left pinkie.
“an anti-retard patch of some sort.”
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Iowahawk IS the funniest blogger on earth. Bar none. And I love him.
Must be something in that fertile Midewestern soil that grows ‘em funny—Iowahawk, Lileks...
Man, that’s one scary-looking graph. By the time we get to the future they’ll be worse than zombies on crack. BTT.
Love the last line!!!!:
“Actually, I think the effect is in the opposite direction,” explains Treacher. “Journalism doesn’t always cause stupid, but stupid sure causes journalism.”
Good one!
I love the graph!
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