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RStar 07-15-2013 07:22 PM

Cow falls through roof, killing a man.

SzczerbiakManiac 07-22-2013 11:34 AM

Geraldo Rivera's bathroom selfie
Warning: You can't un-see that picture!

Alex 07-22-2013 05:00 PM

I don't mind the picture. He's right, he looks good for 70. Though he looks distressingly like my memory of my father (if I aged my father to 50).

That said, I'm appalled that he apparently wears those stupid red sunglasses at home, in his bathroom, while naked. From this I can only assume he wears socks while having sex.

SzczerbiakManiac 07-23-2013 07:40 AM

Sure, he's in shape for a 70-year old... but he's Geraldo Rivera! I didn't need to see Geraldo Rivera half naked, no matter what his fitness level happens to be.

Strangler Lewis 07-23-2013 10:35 AM

Mandelbaum! Mandelbaum!

Gn2Dlnd 07-24-2013 11:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RStar (Post 369380)

Amazingly bad writing. Here are the three opening sentences, and the alleged writer's byline.

Quote:

A cow falls on a man and kills him, this is a bizarre accident making headline news today. The cow falls on the man after coming right through the roof. The bovine falls eight feet onto a bed where a man and wife are sleeping. -
Roz Zurko is a published freelance writer originally from Milford, Conn. and writes from her home in Westfield, Ma. today. Her background in psychology adds a unique prospective to her writing. Her articles were read by more than one million people last month.
One million stupider people.

Alex 07-24-2013 01:37 PM

You aren't always going to get quality journalism on hyperlocal news sites using non-professional labor.

Trust me, I know.

Gn2Dlnd 07-24-2013 03:26 PM

Grammar would be nice.

Moonliner 07-24-2013 06:07 PM

Heh, Headliner is away at Journalism boot camp.

Today they had a closed book spelling test that included:

The Ex-Governor of California who's also the Terminator
The newly Ex-President of Iran
The surviving Boston Bomber suspect.
The soda you drink at 10:00, 2:00 and 4:00
among others.

I would not have done well.

Alex 07-24-2013 08:03 PM

Good to know they're focusing on core journalism skills. Watergate almost didn't happen because Bernstein kept spelling it Ehrilkmann and so Ben Bradlee kept rejecting the stories.

Schwarzenegger (easy to remember with this helpful mnemonic: a black German-American engaging in a Halloween prank)

محمود احمدی*نژاد

Царна́ев (this one I actually knew but still copied from Wiki because I'm not set up to type Cyrillic).

I have no idea what soda is being referenced.


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