Hillary, Yoko and the Real Media Whores

HUH?

Some people believe this shit, and even leave comments

Some people just laugh...having been suckered into visiting a website that cares about nothing except making money via traffic and banner ads.

This "news piece" is on a website called worldnewsdailyreport which is only one of dozens, if not hundreds, of idiot "spoof" sites. As long as they put a disclaimer in small print that this is just an "entertainment" site, it's ok. It's "freedom of speech." It's as amusing a stretch of the truth as declaring a dead parrot is "just stunned."

How did I even know about this thing? Somebody on FARCEBOOK reported it as real.

Somebody else reported it, said "I know it's not a trustworthy source," but linked to it anyway because he hates Hillary Clinton, and figures she's a lying lesbian and some Republican who wants to revoke abortion and fill the country with more guns is the answer.

There was a time when people believed in the medical credo "do no harm."

Now, nobody thinks, nobody cares, and as long as you don't use the words "nigger," "bitch" or "fag," or run a cartoon of Mohamed, anything goes. Har har.

What IS the point of doing something like this? Practical joke? It ain't funny.

It's just an ugly example of "made you look, now I can get more ad money for my website." You can imagine the kind of rodents who do this...ones that can't even make the grade at a real tabloid.

Back in the 20th Century, there wasn't a lot of this blatant bastardly behavior. People had to establish an office to do business, pay writers and printers, and invest a lot of money in starting a newspaper or magazine. It was also important to not offend the conservative Mafia (that controlled distribution to newsstands) or the Pakistanis and Indians who were God-fearing and didn't want to sell anything blasphemous.

There were lines that couldn't be crossed, and believe me, I witnessed various publishers try to cross a lot of them. Fortunately, somebody usually said, "Do this and you'll get a bullet through your head." Or, "After we run this, we will have no advertisers. We'll have pickets in front of the building."

So they stuck to stupid stories about UFO's and Sasquatch and the Loch Ness monster. Which ultimately harmed nobody.

The only way maverick Larry Flynt launched Hustler into tasteless glory is that he distributed it himself and built up a network and a demand so high that most newsstand owners shrugged and said, "Well, ok, it's just crotch shots." But remember, when he ran a photo of an interracial couple, he got shot in the back and paralyzed by a racist. Not a moralist. It was a lesson that running a magazine in the real world could be dangerous.

Now? Now anybody can get a website, make it look "real," and grin all the way to the bank. It can be done with impunity and anonymity. This explains the thousands of porn websites and abusive websites and prank websites. This bogus article has thousands of people circulating it as REAL, and thousands more circulating it as a joke.

How quaint, the moral notion "do no harm." It no longer applies in the 21st Century or on the Internet.