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TRUTH IN SATIRE!
MY OWN FAKE NEWS! Stuff I Wrote That Really Wasn’t Necessarily True!
You’ll be SHOCKED by my duplicity!
Yes, in this, my second terrifying year of being a Journalist* I’ve come to now discover, to my own dismay, that some of the things I’ve written were not 100% accurate, and may have been the result of enthusiastically self-medicating in lieu of diligently triple-checking my sources.
*(From the Latin word “Journalist” — journo- which means “to write”, and
A-list, which means “a popular celebrity”. So “Journalism” comes from the Latin phrase: “To write, onto the forehead, of a popular celebrity”)
Well, just imagine my horror that even just a FEW things I’ve printed in over 380 articles, were later proven to be untrue. — I was shocked, then saddened, then angry, and then I got hungry… so, I was thinking about eating something, then I was shocked and angry again! THEN, I got distracted by a noise outside where two guys were cursing at each other, and then I thought about how much I enjoy watching John Oliver. (He’s very boring when I watch him in his private life with binoculars, and yet, on TV he is hilarious! I guess he saves his best stuff for a larger audience.)
