Free Association Thread 4

[JKendallDane]

Monica the Moocher?..no, no, wait! That was Minnie!

Minnie was Mickey's...well, when she wasn't fucking Goofy.

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[loquere]

Minnie was Mickey's...well, when she wasn't fucking Goofy.

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[SamScribble]

Blue Moon

 

[JKendallDane]

Blue Moon

Pink Floyd

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[Handley_Page]

Pink Floyd

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Floyd Patterson

 

[JKendallDane]

Floyd Patterson

Floyd the barber...who I think secretly had the hots for Aunt Bea.

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[loquere]

Floyd the barber...who I think secretly had the hots for Aunt Bea.

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Floyd is actually the name of my barber.

 

[loquere]

Floyd is actually the name of my barber.

I lied.

 

[SamScribble]

I lied.

Sometimes, lies are more interesting than the truth.

 

[MichaelinChina]

Sometimes, lies are more interesting than the truth.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

 

[JKendallDane]

Truth is stranger than fiction.

Fiction is little more than authors showing off their skill at lying.

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[Handley_Page]

Fiction is little more than authors showing off their skill at lying.

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Sums up a Politician quite well, don't it

 

[loquere]

Fiction is little more than authors showing off their skill at lying.

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I'm guilty as charged.

 

[Handley_Page]

I'm guilty as charged.

Ain't we all ?

 

[JKendallDane]

Ain't we all ?

And thank God lying falls under "literary license" when you're an author.

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[SamScribble]

And thank God lying falls under "literary license" when you're an author.

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I shall have to ask you to step out of the story, sir. Your licence has expired.

 

[Handley_Page]

I shall have to ask you to step out of the story, sir. Your licence has expired.

Nice one!

 

[JKendallDane]

I shall have to ask you to step out of the story, sir. Your licence has expired.

Nice one!

Assume the position. I'll need to frisk you.



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[MichaelinChina]

Assume the position. I'll need to frisk you.



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lol Sam!

Keystone Cops?

 

[loquere]

And thank God lying falls under "literary license" when you're an author.

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The literary Gods!

 

[Handley_Page]

Sometimes, lies are more interesting than the truth.

Ask any newspaper editor

 

[JKendallDane]

Ask any newspaper editor

You know the news industry has changed dramatically and is possibly is beyond fixing when the comics section is the most believable part of the newspaper.

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[Handley_Page]

You know the news industry has changed dramatically and is possibly is beyond fixing when the comics section is the most believable part of the newspaper.

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Oh, how true.
~The problem is this, as I see it.
Either the truth-telling newspapers accurately report what they have been told
or
they lie in their teeth regardless.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Oh, how true.
~The problem is this, as I see it.
Either the truth-telling newspapers accurately report what they have been told
or
they lie in their teeth regardless.

During the bombing of Kosovo, a student of mine researched the independence of the press for his honours thesis. He randomly selected 50 relevant articles from the New York Times and compared them to a database I had assembled of all the U.S. State Department public documents during the same time period. Of the 50 articles, 48 could be traced directly to State Department documents; only 2 were original and written by independent reporters.

Much modern journalism seems to involve paraphrasing press releases and calling them news articles.

 

[MichaelinChina]

During the bombing of Kosovo, a student of mine researched the independence of the press for his honours thesis. He randomly selected 50 relevant articles from the New York Times and compared them to a database I had assembled of all the U.S. State Department public documents during the same time period. Of the 50 articles, 48 could be traced directly to State Department documents; only 2 were original and written by independent reporters.

Much modern journalism seems to involve paraphrasing press releases and calling them news articles.

That's been the case for a long time! Lazy journalism.