Herald Scmerald
Imagined conversation at the SMH yesterday afternoon....
"Quick! There's been a plane crash in Indonesia..."
"Oh! That's no good, poor... Indonesians?"
"No! OMG! There's like Australians on board! And not only that, but there are journalists on board. And maybe even Downer!!!!!!"
"Holy crappola! Quick! Get the QRBT on the line..."
"Hello? Is that the QRBT? We need a banner stat!"
"Oh that's fantastic! Great! Thanks.... Now we'll just put in our link to the newsblog... 'How has your day been affected by this crash? Is there anything YOU know? How can this be blamed on Sydney's traffic crisis? Just how do you feel this has been influenced by Iemma? SMS us now!'
[Hmmm. That doesn't look quite right...]
"Ohshitohshitohshit... Quick! Get them back on the line!"
"Ahhhhh. That's better."
"D'ya think anyone noticed?????"
"Hardly! Our target readership is too busy hadn-wringing and weeping and putting the finishing touches to their hairshirts..."
"Sweet! Let's go grab a soy latte"
9 March 2007 - update: These screen grabs 'disappeared' from blogger today. I have no idea why. Let's see how long they last this time, now that they're properly acknowledged.
"Quick! There's been a plane crash in Indonesia..."
"Oh! That's no good, poor... Indonesians?"
"No! OMG! There's like Australians on board! And not only that, but there are journalists on board. And maybe even Downer!!!!!!"
"Holy crappola! Quick! Get the QRBT on the line..."
"Hello? Is that the QRBT? We need a banner stat!"
"Oh that's fantastic! Great! Thanks.... Now we'll just put in our link to the newsblog... 'How has your day been affected by this crash? Is there anything YOU know? How can this be blamed on Sydney's traffic crisis? Just how do you feel this has been influenced by Iemma? SMS us now!'
[Hmmm. That doesn't look quite right...]
"Ohshitohshitohshit... Quick! Get them back on the line!"
"Ahhhhh. That's better."
"D'ya think anyone noticed?????"
"Hardly! Our target readership is too busy hadn-wringing and weeping and putting the finishing touches to their hairshirts..."
"Sweet! Let's go grab a soy latte"
9 March 2007 - update: These screen grabs 'disappeared' from blogger today. I have no idea why. Let's see how long they last this time, now that they're properly acknowledged.
Labels: extreme random
posted by actonb at 7:02 am
13 Comments:
The smh is getting pretty lame. I think a lot of online news pubs are just so fecking undisciplined. Just because you can change something once it's already up, is no reason not to proof it before it goes up. Gah.
But Mx took my cake yesterday. It's like they couldn't knock the picture of the pussycat dolls off the front cover, so they left it there, and replaced what I think was their orignial headline (about a PCD-related wardrobe malfunction) with 'Airliner Crash'.
Imagine my disappointment when I discovered the pussycat dolls were not, in fact, on the plane ...
I'm so bad at proof reading - I couldn't see what you were talking about for ages!
Wouldn't it be good if the Pussycat Dolls were on the plane - no more bad spelling of song titles, no more strippers masquerading as singers.
AB, that is the best post you've ever done.
I knew you had a bit of the 'old c*nt' in you.
'How has your day been affected by this crash?'
Priceless...
I am so glad someone else noticeed that. I was ranting about it to my family, who politely told me to "shut the f*ck up about the bad grammar already".
Almost as good as when the Soccer World Cup was on and the SMH did a full page ad supporting the Socceroos - shame the picture of team was actualy Brazil. Same colours, different country. Oops.
So long as your "hadn-wringing" is ironic, of course, AB...
(I did notice they also claim the CH7 cameraman had a broken leg but kept on filming - even though on the Seven news that night they said he had cuts and bruises...)
HA HA HA!!
thats gold!
THAT is hillaious!
Larue: The SMH is lame. Fullstop. It's making me so very cranky.
KR: heh - the Pussycat Dolls AND Downer... two birds etc.
fingers: Erm, thanks. I think.
Omel: It wasn't just bad grammar, it was sloppy sensationalist journalism. And also stupid.
Donnie: Hmmm, well I could say 'ha! Yes! Well spotted!' Except, no, I stuffed up. But I'm leaving it there. Mea Culpa.. The difference being that this isn't MY JOB.
m & m: Thanks!
aw.. mexie we're m&m!...that's so damn... delicious!
No need to thank me, AB.
Credit where credit is due.
I'm sure tomorrow you'll be back to your waffling and I'll be wishing I'd been on that plane...
mars: I say ditch Dot, and you and mex start your own blog of sweet sweet randomness. I know I'd read it!
"Mex and Mars: Don't ever try to stop them."
I'd read that blog too.
FAW! so far this new blog has more readers that the current blog has. MEX? hey mexie, maybe if you come live to melbourne, you can come live with us and have a sweet cameo appearance on our blog? i know I'D read that blog too..
Mex and Mars - Stick it to them!
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