Springfield MO? What happened to Jefferson City?
:smack::smack: Thanks. You’d think after all those years of sending tax money to Jeff City I’d have gotten that one right. Dumbass.
North West (who is a two year old ) had a tantrum.
So did her father.
Like father like daughter?
How about Bobbi Kristina Brown? Nothing to see here; move along.
I feel bad for her family, but c’mon, she’s the offspring of two celebrities and not a public figure in her own right.
During the OJ trial, Newsweek magazine had a story about the sequestered jurors having all media censored to remove references to him, and someone wrote them a letter asking where he could subscribe to this service. 
When the Oklahoma City bombing happened, my first thought was, “So, how long will this bump OJ from the top of the news?” TWO DAYS. :smack:
FTR, during this time I read a commentary from a woman who worked with a literacy program at her local jail, and she said that every black inmate with whom she had discussed the OJ case (“and they call themselves black, not African American”) believed he was guilty.
Speaking of Ebola, I have personally followed the story closely since it broke almost a year ago, because one of my interests is medical history, and I’ve had to debunk a lot of claims (mostly that the disease was created in a lab) and reassure people that it’s not something Americans have to worry about, as long as you stay out of west Africa.
Probably the dumbest thing I saw, besides some of the conspiracy videos (which made me want to take a chlorine shower) was a local news story from “a local person with ties to Dr. Brantly.” It turned out they were distantly related by marriage AND SHE HAD NEVER MET HIM but for some reason, the local news team thought she was worth interviewing anyway. :smack:
Bubonic plague never went away. It’s endemic in the American Southwest. It’s just that nobody worries too much about it anymore. If you catch it, they give you a lot of Cipro, tell you not to do much until you stop feeling like you’ve been hit by a truck, and to come back to the ER if you have trouble breathing or it looks like one of your extremities might fall off. It has about the same mortality rate as anything else that gives you crippling pneumonia. Not a lot of people come down with plague anymore, mainly because we’ve decided fleas are disgusting and make some effort to keep them out of our stuff.
Me, I would like the weather services to stop intimating that we’re all going to die every time a large storm sweeps in. Most of the stuff out where I am has been here for, literally, over a hundred years. This is not going to be the storm that knocks my house down. I can tell when we’re about to have the annual observation of Hurricane Day because the week beforehand, every single news channel runs lengthy reports on horrible precipitation-based disasters of the past, and putting together emergency preparedness kits and holing up as if preparing for Ragnarok itself.
The actual emergency hurricane procedure in Boston, as it turns out, is to shove all the patio furniture into the garage, buy enough vodka and mixers to keep yourself entertained if the power goes out, and close all the windows before it starts raining in earnest. It would have been much more useful if someone had told me this before Hurricane Irene. Getting all your disaster information from the Weather Channel is kind of like learning about sex from pornos – you get the gist, but wow some of the specifics are off by a very long way.
As for hurricane coverage, it’s only a matter of time before a reporter is killed live on the air. This almost happened to Anderson Cooper several years ago.
Freezing temperatures in February across most of the nation. No shit? I could not have called that.
How about when some dude makes up a preposterous tale that becomes front page news?
A couple of decades ago, the weekly Door County Advocate had as its lead article, “Nazis on Rock Island.” It was illustrated with a large swastika, although the paper was never known for racist attitudes.
Seems this guy was camping on remote Rock Island, a place only accessible by boat, and he got up at night, looked over a dune, and said he saw a bunch of Nazis in full regalia, noisily dancing around the campfire. He went back to sleep (no cellphones back then) and reported it the next day.
No pictures, natcherly – he forgot his camera.
No other witnesses, natch – he didn’t wake anyone else.
No evidence, natch – the Nazis would have had to arrive and leave in their own boats, leaving no trace behind.
And without any pix, the paper illustrated the front-page news with a swastika, natch.
The all-time winner for least-newsworthy news item, in my memory at least: Justin Bieber cardboard cutout wows Yellowknife. There was a cardboard cutout of Justin Bieber in a store in Yellowknife, a town in northern Canada. Some store customers went a little wild over it. Yes, that’s pretty much the whole story. (Maybe not much happens that far north?)
Also, this was only on the local news, but once a family in my area found mold inside a juice box. I guess it wouldn’t bother me if this was just mentioned briefly on the radio as a short news item once, but people just went on and on about it all day long! There are three local news shows on the CBC radio station, one in the morning, one at noon, and one in the afternoon - and they all had extensive coverage of the juice box story.
I never said it was a new term. It’s just that it was only used by the Gorton’s Fisherman and his ilk. It wasn’t used ten times a season to make a storm seem scarier. It was perfectly acceptable to just say it was going to be rainy and windy.
Just like I’m sure the term polar vortex has been around for a while. I bet the meteorologists used it a lot while sitting around fapping to weather porn. But for us normal people it’s perfectly ok to just say “It’s going to be really cold tomorrow.” But polar vortex sounds scary. So does naming snowstorms. Makes a minor inconvenience seem like a deadly hurricane. It is infuriating.
Anyone remember when that female soccer player took her shirt off when her team won, and she ran around the field in her bra, and this was considered “a huge victory for women everywhere”? Didn’t affect my life at all.
I don’t get the Duggar worship that some people seem to engage in.
The tell-all those kids will probably write after their parents are gone will probably be VERY interesting. 
And a story that was mentioned today: the “Miracle On Ice.”
The American hockey team beat the Russians in 1980. Um, so?
Um, because it was a big deal at the time?
Huge. On multiple levels.
Is it a big deal now?
I don’t remember it at all, and I’m old enough that I supposedly should have. :dubious:
The Miracle on Ice was before my time, but if I understand correctly, it was almost as if today’s USA national soccer team had defeated today’s German national soccer team in the World Cup knockout round. It would have been a massive upset victory.
That being said - yes, it’s been 35 years, I don’t really think the Miracle on Ice needs to be relived and relived again and again by this time.