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Posts Tagged ‘media fail’

In the olden days when shoes were a luxury and smallpox was a right of passage, men like William Randolph Hearst used their complete control over communication airwaves to tell the general populace whatever lie happened to be convenient (see marijuana is evil) or interesting (see below).

With the advent of the Internet, the situation has changed so that instead of powerful media moguls spreading bullshit, pretty much anybody can do it. After all, if the story is good enough, the mainstream media will report it, no matter how transparently retarded it is.

This is more fine work from Cracked.com. I saw several of these when they were ‘news’ and laughed my ass off, but there are also some gems that I’ve never seen before. The tag for ‘media fail’ is born.

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