Making the best of the New York Times
Posted by Moonage on 20 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Humor, The Media
Received this via email. It’s so true in so many ways:
A biker is riding his Harley by the zoo, when he sees a little girl leaning into the lion’s cage. Suddenly, the lion grabs her by the cuff of her jacket and tries to pull her inside to slaughter her, under the eyes of her screaming parents.
The biker jumps off his bike, runs to the cage and hits the lion square on the nose with a powerful punch. Whimpering from the pain the lion jumps back letting go of the girl, and the biker brings her to her terrified parents, who thank him endlessly.
A New York Times reporter witnessed the entire event. The reporter addressing the biker says, ”Sir, that was the most gallant and brave thing I saw a man do in my whole life.”
The biker replies, “Why, it was nothing, really, the lion was behind bars. I just saw this little kid in danger, and I just did what I had to do.”
The reporter says, “Well, I’ll make sure this won’t go unnoticed. I’m a journalist from the New York Times, you know, and tomorrow’s paper will have this story on the front page. . . . So, what do you do for a living and what is your political affiliation?”
The biker replies, “I’m a U.S. Marine and a Republican.”
The journalist leaves. The following morning the biker buys The New York Times to see if it indeed brings news of his actions, and reads, on front page:
U.S. MARINE ASSAULTS AFRICAN IMMIGRANT AND STEALS HIS LUNCH
2 Comments »
on 21 Aug 2008 at 1:25 pm 1.Jacinda said …
This would be funnier if not so sadly true…
on 22 Aug 2008 at 7:47 am 2.Moonage
said …
The reason I posted it was how sadly true it is. Used to, in the old days, they at least faked it. Nowadays they don’t even see the need to do that. I think it’s doing the American public a huge disservice by creating a lot of unnecessary division and ill-will within the US for no reason. And although this one tilts Republican, you can, of course, substitute a number of conservative rags as well. None of them can provide an un-biased story any more. I watch news, I eat it up. However, what I do any more is just get the meat from the story and look to several sources to get the weighted truth of the story as I know not one single source will ever get it right due to their political leanings.