Topic: Media
The mass media has a certain way of drawing our attention in. While we stopped watching television news years ago (even before Kouric pooped herself onto CBS - ed), we still get all of our news daily from the Internet tubes. It is, after all, the new mass media. Instant news with the possibility of enticing opinion columns and splashy headlines.
Which is why we're going to currently bash MSNBC for ruining one of the greatest and most promising headlines with a total turd-pile of a story.
The headline?
Zzzzzap! Taser parties surging in popularity
The story?
"Stun gun social events raise self-defense awareness for women."
WHAT? Just... WHAT? We were hoping for a good ol' fashion teenagers huffing paint type story. Something where kids gather to shock each other with stun guns instead of getting drunk on cheap hooch stolen from their parents' liqour cabinets.
But the rug was pulled out from underneath us instead, and we're left with an insipid page of drivel about how women have replaced Tupperware parties with gatherings to show off their leopard print tazers.
Balderdash! We haven't been this disappointed in months. It's akin to meeting some fantastic looking woman at a bar, who shockingly agrees to go home with you. You begin slipping her form-fitting dress off slowly while delicately kissing her neck, to only have a semi-erect penis pop out from under the fabric to say hello as you approach the Promised Land.
Thanks for face-raping us, MSNBC. We hate you.
