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Call me Deacon Blues Donating Member (512 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 08:22 AM
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Pssst . . . all you "Journalists" out there -- SCANDAL SELLS!
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You know who you are. Your ratings have been declining steadily for years (as are your newspaper sales), so to pump them up, you've been putting every Runaway Bride you can find on page one to prop things up. All the while, the answer to your problem has been staring right at you. If it bleeds, it leads, they say -- well, a scandal-ridden, corrupt Presidential administration is the biggest corpse around, and the Bush administration is the most corrupt, scandal ridden in American history.

Everybody likes to see an arrogant bully brought down. So you want to sell papers? You want to boost ratings? Believe me, if you pull back the rock and turn your cameras to the cockroaches scurrying underneath, you'll make some money. Really.

Hey Time magazine, want to see the biggest selling issue in your history?



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