What better way to bury a news story than to sneak it through on a day when the vast majority of Americans are guaranteed to be distracted by mountains of tryptophan or embarrassing antics courtesy drunken co-workers? Thanks to the internet, I bring you the top ten most common ways to bury a news story.
My favorite technique is the Friday-afternooner. Did you know that the Environmental Protection Agency lowered the clean air standards about a month ago? Me neither. But you know who did? People who watched the news at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, November 15. So that would be, um, my retired world history teacher, that weird guy who works at the gas station, and Karl Rove.
Go Team Democracy!
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Nimble Jugglers That Deceive
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Inaction at it's finest. I love that you're always pointing news coverups out...people don't normally think about that kind of stuff, because it's not kicking them in their indifferent faces like everything else is!
Rock on, brothaman! Or, you...go girl....!?
And the funny thing is stories like that really aren't even buried so much as just not screaming across the front page, which I guess these days amounts to the same difference.
Yeah, it's gotta be kicking AND screaming for me to pay any attention.
So........keep us on the up and up good lady!
Bastards.
Truly.
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