Completely outclassed ...
Apr. 1st, 2009 02:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blamebramptonFor those who lack time to click the link, the SMH summarises it thusly:
In the UK, newspaper The Guardian announced it would become the first newspaper to be published exclusively via micro-blogging service, Twitter.
"Experts say any story can be told in 140 characters," the paper said.
"A mammoth project is also under way to rewrite the whole of the newspaper's archive, stretching back to 1821, in the form of tweets.
"Major stories already completed include '1832 Reform Act gives voting rights to one in five adult males yay!!!'; 'OMG Hitler invades Poland, allies declare war see tinyurl.com/b5x6e for more'; and 'JFK assassin8d @ Dallas, def. heard second gunshot from grassy knoll WTF?'."
In actual Real World News, and I am not making this up, New Idea, an even lower-rent mag in the territory of OK and Hello, ran a cover story about the New Man in Bec Hewitt's Life!!!
Bec Hewitt is a former soapie star, now married to a famous tennis player. Chavtastic the pair of them, but basically harmless. Bec, it must be mentioned, is the 'public face' of New Idea. The story has many photos of Bec out and about with a handsome young man who is treated as theough he is one of the family and allowed free and unfettered access to her life and kids, acting as their father in their father's absence. Bec is clearly vey close to him, the writer slyly innuendoes.
As well she might be. It's her brother.
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Date: 2009-04-01 05:15 am (UTC)*dies* Thanks for sharing! ^_^
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Date: 2009-04-01 06:47 am (UTC)*hugs you*
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Date: 2009-04-01 09:14 am (UTC)I particularly liked this:
Most now offer Twitter feeds of major breaking news headlines, while the Daily Mail recently pioneered an iPhone application providing users with a one-click facility for reporting suspicious behaviour by migrants or gays.
and this:
According to subsequent reports, he is thinking about going to the theatre tonight, but it is raining :(.
Awesome. Thanks for sharing. :)
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Date: 2009-04-01 10:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-01 12:43 pm (UTC)'JFK assassin8d @ Dallas, def. heard second gunshot from grassy knoll WTF?
::facepalm::
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Date: 2009-04-01 05:25 pm (UTC)i am also incredibly gullible :P
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Date: 2009-04-01 06:19 pm (UTC)Facebook telling me I am related to Barack Obama is laaaaaaame. Aside from anything else (and there was plenty of 'else') he's a little busy today to be pissing about on Facebook.
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Date: 2009-04-01 08:36 pm (UTC)"ZOMG! Allies pwn Germany FTW!"
*snork*
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Date: 2009-04-04 09:48 am (UTC)I, too, am laughing forever at that one!
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Date: 2009-04-02 12:53 am (UTC)That's a brilliant April Fool's from The Guardian.
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Date: 2009-04-04 09:47 am (UTC)That Guardian one is still making me laugh, days later ;-)
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