Tue, 12 Dec 2006
Bizarre goat news // at 23:59
Melbourne's little paper outdoes itself today, with a headline and article reading:
Military goat toll mounts
THE total number of goats killed after experiments by British military scientists since 2001 stands at 69, the Ministry of Defence said today.
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Ministry of Defence scientists use goats in the tests because, it is claimed, their reactions are similar to those of humans.
Hmm.... maybe some of the website application developers should use goats for testing their user-interfaces before releasing the applications on us at work.
Sun, 03 Dec 2006
Reporting // at 23:59
Shock Horror News! The Herald Sun excels itself at magnificent
Capitalised Attention Grabbing Headlines.
On a related note, why are motorist deaths always reported as "the motorist died after hitting a tree" and with motorcyclists it always seem to be "the motorcyclist lost control and died after hitting a tree"? Don't motorists lose control? Do the trees just run out and hit them in the middle of the roads?
Why is the little paper so bad, and why do so many people read it? It scares me that this is the major source of “news” for so much of the population.
