A lot of stupid spelling and grammar errors show up on Enquirer.com every day. It’s the kind of thing that could be prevented with basic proofreading. Oh, well.
But this amounts to the Enquirer folks et al not paying one fucking lick of attention. Check out the shirt on chin pubes.
There are two sets of questions:
For the Enquirer/Metromix/Cincinnati.com team, what moves your photographer to take a picture of this guy? And post it, unchanged? And why hasn’t anyone in the Gannett compound noticed as of 8:30 Thursday night?
For Lintbeard, why buy this shirt? Maybe you thought it was funny when you first saw it, but why go through with buying it? And then why buy this shirt and wear it in public? Above all, why buy this shirt, wear it in public, and say, “yes, Mr. Camera, I would like to be forever immortalized as the douche telling everyone what makes his penis happy”?
In conclusion, fuck! Enquirer. Seriously?? FUCK!… Read the rest
I should preface this post with a note that I couldn’t care less about the Casey Anthony trial. I learned about it yesterday, and my first reaction was one of complete indifference. This is still my position on the matter.
However, I saw this headline on the Enquirer’s website and blood actually shot out of my ears:
Why was Casey Anthony acquitted?
Here’s the story. It’s nothing more than a local commentary on a national story that, I suppose, got a lot of attention. In other words, this is clickbait that the Enquirer is using to boost traffic and meet their numbers to make sure that the sales pitch they use to get advertisers is *close* to accurate. It’s bullshit, and it’s not news.
What’s more is that they attached this to the Ryan Widmer trial. I don’t really have any commentary about this, other than to say that it doesn’t make any damn sense.
Not to sound too righteously indignant, but if we’re going to settle for this sort of commentary garbage as “news,” then Cincinnati is in some pretty deep shit.
Suggestion: write the Editor of the Enquirer an email, asking her to raise the level of discourse in our newspaper beyond simply commenting on national stories and writing up stupid clickbait for the sole purpose of advertising dollars. Ask for more reporters to report on local stories. Ask for investigative journalism. Ask for real news. And threaten to punch them in the pocket.
So, the Enquirer’s started a website that is something of a clearinghouse for Cincinnati’s Blogosphere, or whatever, as if you couldn’t run an RSS reader on your own (do people still do that? Did people EVER do that, if they’re not huge nerds?). So, what they’re doing with this site is not just taking Cincinnati.com blogs and putting them in one place–but they’re also taking other, completely unrelated blogs and putting them in there, too. Without asking the bloggers. Which is totally fine for a news organization to do, apparently.
In CincyBlogs’ FAQ, they inexplicably include the question, “Why are you doing this?” It’s inexplicable because of the answer:
In this episode of the CinAwesome Podcast of Awesomeness, Jason and Ed cover the last couple weeks of polls, discuss Ed’s trip to Orlando and all the Disney awesomeness it has to offer, the Enquirer’s apparent humor when it comes to writing murder-related headlines, and the Carson Palmer thing. Yes, that Carson Palmer thing. NO, NOT *THAT* CARSON PALMER THING, YOU SICKASS.
We hope you enjoy the show–why not stop in and rate/write a review of the show at iTunes? If you do, we’ll talk about how great you are on the next ‘cast.… Read the rest
