Looking at the CNN news pages online today I was reading about the Olympics and they described the first ever Gold medal for the tiny Caribbean Island of Bermuda. Except that it is not and never has been in the Caribbean. Must have been misplaced. I blame the triangle.
Is that the best that CNN can do?
Fake News – there is no hope for us.
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Surely that’s not “fake news” so much as an error, (albeit a real howler)? Not quite the same thing, are they?
I get what you are saying although it could be fake news if it said a Caribbean nation won its first ever gold if no other caribbean nation wins a gold at these games.
While sloppy fact-checking is inexcusable for a news gathering organization for that size and stature, it’s hardly evidence of some vast MSM conspiracy.
Bermuda is and always has been in Oceania, Steve.
It’s in Eastasia. It has always been in Eastasia.
*unpersons chiz*
*DePlinths Moose*
Depodiums both Moose and Chiz.
Well that’ll save me going back tert’ proctologist.
Huh! I’ve been depodiumed and I didn’t even know I’d medalled
I’ve just cogitated.
Look at it from their angle.
This deserves a 👏👏👏👏👏👏
I thank you. 😊
Not sure it qualifies as fake news, but I did raise an eyebrow yesterday when The Guardian took the following quote from Neil Ferguson:
“We’re not completely out of the woods, but the equation has fundamentally changed. The effect of vaccines is hugely reducing the risk of hospitalisations and death. And I’m positive that by late September or October time we will be looking back at most of the pandemic.”
and therefrom produced the main headline:
“UK “not out of the woods” despite falling case numbers, says expert.”
Guardian gonna Guardian.
It’s tiring work, being relentlessly negative about as much of the human experience as possible. Hard to summarise accurately with that kind of exhaustion.
The Guardian is full of sex at the moment. They seem to enjoy that.
You’re right. It’s about time they centered some voices from the Asexual community.
Actually I have seen an article on that issue recently. I can’t remember where I saw it and I didn’t actually read it. However, my internet browsing is very unimaginative, sticking to the tried and trusted. It must have been The Guardian.
😳
Full of sex? Try the new Netflix series Sex Life. Not very good acting but stormy sex lives – I was almost shocked.
Stormy sex lives? Featuring a certain Donald? I’ll give it a miss.
Howard Donald?
Donald Sinden?
Ramsey McDonald?
@pawsforthought
Donald whirrs yer troosers
Will you old coots quit with the Steely Dan??
@hedgepig
Despite easily being able to juggle their anally retentive typographic rules, the Guardian is not showing the one team whose progress the bulk of its readership would be interested in following – and we’re not talking Palestine.
While currently one place outside the rag’s top 5 Olympic leaderboard, interest in GB would surely merit the team’s inclusion even were they 96th.
“Don’t let LOVE RAT Ferguson stop you leaving the woods!” – Daily Mail (possibly).
CNN taken Wreckless Eric on as a sports writer?
I suspect the Guardian reporter, like myself, was led astray by the roll call on this banger:
(Dream Warriors – Ludi)
The album that that comes from is very good, and deserves to be remembered for something other than Austin Powers.
Ludi however is total shit.
It’s dedicated to his mother, you heartless b*****d!
That shit didn’t excuse the Kray twins, and it won’t excuse these…
I saw them live. Not only did I see them live, but I took a young lady on a first date to see them live. What was I thinking?
Poor lass probably thought she was going to see a Freddy Kruger movie. She was expecting back-row snuggling and she got shouty Canadians.
Was there a second date?
Yes Steve. Did she, as it were, wash her face in your sink?
Surprisingly, “would you like to come up and see my vinyl?” didn’t cut it. Anyway, she had a really big nose.
Oho, you know what they say, big nose,
big hanky
I read somewhere that Soul Bossa Nova was used as the theme tune for a long-running Canadian TV quiz show, which is why both Dream Warriors and Michael Myers used it. I imagine there’s probably a Rush bootleg where Neil Peart incorporates it into his drum solo.
The UK equivalent would have been if MC Tunes or Schooly D had sampled the theme from Bullseye.
I wouldn’t put it past old Tunes, bless him.
As far as American news sources are concerned, CNN are the good guys.
Any channel whose chief reporters have names like Wolf Blitzer is alright by me.