From: "Strong, Lee" <StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Things of Interest
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 13:11:57 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

	If you run into him again, ask him how he liked the movie _S1m0ne_.

-----Original Message-----
From: Samuel Lubell [mailto:samlubell at yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 1:03 PM
To: WSFA members
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Things of Interest

I once got into an on-line discussion with someone
claiming that an article in the Onion was real, after
all there was photograph there.

I calmly pointed out the existance of photoshop and
suggested he check out some of the other articles
before relying on the Onion as a news source.

I eventually got back a message that was sort of a how
dare they make up something that looks so real and
fool people.

--- Michael Walsh <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> wrote:
> >ronkean at juno.com 10/29/02 09:14PM
> >>On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 16:24:22 -0500 "Michael Walsh"
> ><MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> writes:
> >
> >> Anyone who actually believes what the Weekly
> World News publishes
> >> probably =
> >> has also bought the Brooklyn Bridge, more than
> once.
> >>
> >> mjw
> >>
> >
> >
> >Apparently the tabloids have a wide circulation,
>
> Of the "Top 100 Consumer Magazines 2001" the
> National Enquier is #37 with =
> a circulation of 1,934,706
> (http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0301522.html)=
>
> > judging from the fact
> >that they are on display in nearly every second
> grocery checkout aisle in
> >the country.  I marvel at the implication that tens
> of millions of
> >American adults actually believe what they read in
> the tabloids.  But
> >perhaps many of the regular readers read them as a
> form of entertainment,
> >regarding the truth of the stories as irrelevant to
> that purpose.  For an
> >online 'news' source wherein none of the stories
> are true, but nearly all
> >are entertaining, see
> http://www.theonion.com/index.shtml .
>
> "No one in this world, so far as I know, and I have
> searched the
>  records, and emplyed agents to help me, has ever
> lost money by
>  underestimating the intelligence of the great
> masses of the plain
>  people." - - H. L. Mencken
>
> mjw
>

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