It’s true, I tell you. Through the intelligence, or lack thereof, of our local “The Citizen” paper. I sent in the birth announcement of my daughter and had it reading that my son, Carsten was pleased to announce her arrival. The retards over there put it as:
“On hand for the birth was big sister, Carsten…”
The idijits changed the entire announcement around, which I understand for space reasons, but the sex change part is most annoying.
When my son was born, they put down my name as John. (It’s Joan.)
So,my letter back to the morons has a lovely closing salvo of " If your paper cannot manage to get the simiple details of a birth announcement correct, I shudder about whether or not to beleive the important local stories are creditable."
We had a similar thing happen with our wedding announcement. I guess they don’t believe that we DO know how to spell our hometowns and the names of the ushers. They also completely made up what my dress looked like…I guess they normally put that information in there and since we didn’t provide it, they got creative.
It’s always a useful tool in judging the media to see or read their coverage of a story that you personally know about and compare their version of the story with your actual knowledge of it. Once you’ve measured the amount of distortion and bias, keep it in mind when you see or read other stories which you don’t have personal knowledge of.
Our local weekly fish wrap listed my son’s birthweight at 18 pounds, rather than eight. My wife, still resting after the C-section and anticipating the newspaper announcement all week, was not amused.
Friends of mine named their son Brian. On the birth certificate the hospital put it as “Brain”. They (the parents) didn’t even notice until he was in high school. They were going to have it changed, but Brian thought it was “cool”. So they left it as is.
Peace,
mangeorge
Teach your kids to bungee jump.
One them might have to cross a bridge someday.
TIME ELAPSED SINCE I QUIT SMOKING:
One week, one day, 23 hours, 43 minutes and 46 seconds.
359 cigarettes not smoked, saving $44.94.
Life saved: 1 day, 5 hours, 55 minutes.