Never trust the papers
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned a Sunday Times interview.
To be quite honest, I had forgotten all about it, but Herself hadn’t and she suggested I go and buy the paper today as she wanted to see the photograph of Penny.
For those of you who are not familiar with the Sunday Times, it’s one of those papers where you need a fucking lorry to bring it home. There are endless papers within papers and if that wasn’t enough there are reams of magazines, both plain and glossy. The one good thing about is that I reckon we are talking about at least five acres of forest.
Anyhows, I toddled down to the village, bought the last one in the shop and hefted it home.
I set to working my way through the pile and as luck would have it, I found what I was looking for right away. Or rather I should say I didn’t find what I was looking for.
What I found was a great big two page spread all about “Mummy Bloggers” or some such. Aha thinks I, this must be it. I skimmed through the whole thing and then realised there was a tiny block near the bottom of the second page with a mention that men “blog” too. There was even a picture of a bloke with his kid.
I skimmed through that little block and found the very last paragraph where they mentioned this site. “Winner of an award” they announce. “It’s four fucking awards you dozy pillocks!” I reply. The half hour interview had been condensed into a small paragraph, most of which had been lifted from this site.
What was worse, there was no picture of Penny.
I honestly don’t know why I bother.
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You said it. Or rather you didn't say it. Well, you nearly said it….. 😐
"To be quite honest, I had forgotten all about it," Yeah right. I bet you didn't sleep last night and were sat outside the paper shop at 4am.
Meh! I'm long past worrying about things like that. I know I get a better press in the "Court Diary" section.
While working with Apple some years ago, we flew a journalist from Dublin to Cork, picked the prick up at the airport and ferried him to the plant. I gave him a three-hour demonstration of all the very latest technologies, wined and dined him over lunch and even drove the fucker back to the airport in the afternoon. It was in the car that he asked me if we had an Apple dealer in either Donegal, Wexford, Longford or Kerry. I answered truthfully that the demand didn't justify it and that those areas were covered by dealers close-by anyway.
The headline to his article the following Sunday was, "Nowhere to buy a Mac in Ireland." Journalists are a dangerous lying breed !
In fairness to her, she got nothing wrong [apart from the number of awards!]. I'm only disappointed they never showed a photo of Penny.
After putting up with my shit of a journalist for a whole day, I didn't get any pictures either.
Mummy bloggers got a bigger spread in the paper then? There's a suprise…… Leave the dead tree press to that kind of shite GD. There is no such thing as news in newspapers these days, just following their own agenda's. Good for lighting the fire or lining the budgie cage though.
You forgot to mention wrapping chips. Or don't they do that any more?
Nope
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