Get out your crystal ball, pull down the ouija board, unwrap those special tarot cards you keep hidden in a mayonnaise jar. You’re going to look into the future and predict some hard-to-imagine, even harder-to-believe news item for next Thursday.
Can be anything that will appear as a headline or one of those news-of-the-weird items on one or more of these websites some time in the day of June 7, 2012:
– Google News
– Yahoo! News
– BBC
– CNN
– Fox News
– MSNBC
– New York Times
– The Onion
– Huffington Post
– Washington Post
If you want to name another source in your prediction, that will be fine. The ten listed above don’t require a specific mention.
Predictions will not be in the running for winner of the exercise if posted after midnight on June 6-7, 2012.
You will be responsible for posting a link to your story/item from one of those 10 sources (or the source you name) during the day of June 7.
Be as weird and unlikely as you like. As mundane as you care to be.
Just make sure it’s going to be in the news!
Be the first on your block to be a Newswami! And if your town adds to the pizzazz (like Miami Newswami or Tamiami Newswami) you can even get a t-shirt to that effect.
Winner of the exercise/contest will be the earliest posted prediction that has a corroborating link posted sometime on June 7.
Have a blast. Make a headline! Get those predictions coming in.
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