This week, Norman Goldman, tipped his listeners to a US Supreme Court Case decision in the case of Robert Pelkey's towed car that could serve as an example of soap opera news.
The World's Laziest Journalist has been quite critical of the journalism industry. We recently lambasted CBS Evening News for relying too much on footage of an interviewee crying. Aren't those weeping people interviews Exhibit A in the case to prove the existence of Soap Opera News? We are not too sure about the legality of taking a photo of the TV screen showing an example of the soap opera news crying phenomenon and so we only mentioned it. We note with interest the fact that last weekend Scott Pelley shook up the Journalism world by seconding our idea that America's free press has become a parody of itself. Come to think of it, some of the blustery anchors do remind us of that sly old fox, Marshal Rooster Cogburn (John Wayne) in the film "True Grit."
Doing some digging to find some interesting tidbits of information and going places (such as Moffett Field) to see some interesting things and to watch some events happen helps the World's Laziest Journalist cope with the challenge of breaking the boredom barrier in Berkeley. It helps if we come up with some material that is new and unique. Such as? Isn't it about time for an announcement be made and AP to run some photos of the location for where the Obama Presidential Library will be built? Have your other sources for political punditry hipped you to the latest pop culture phenomenon named Paris Jackson?
While Fox reports on the latest Obama scandals, aren't the treehuggers who are disappointed in the XL pipeline, the potheads who are miffed about the crackdowns on medical marijuana dispensaries, and the peaceniks who disapprove of all drone strikes (not just the ones Dubya authorized) supposed to rally to Obama's defense? Lotsa luck on that.
Charles Batman, the managing editor of the Santa Monica Independent Journal Newspapaers once said: "I have seen the future of Rock and Roll and it is . . . litigation."
Now the disk jockey will play our highly subjective list of the best one hit wonder (that qualification eliminates Les Paul and Duane Eddy from consideration) guitar recordings. He will play Link Wray's "Rumble," Jorgan Ingman's "Apache," and Jody Reynold's "Endless Sleep." We have to go charge the batteries for our Nikon Coolpix camera. Have a "keep "em flying" type week.
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