MaxedOutMama
Sunday, February 20, 2005
A glorious fisking
Inspired by journalistic inanity, the Prof at Rantingprofs administers the MSM fisk of the century:
Iowahawk succeeds in his parodies because he's so adept at picking up this type of newsie formalism. It's as if you see the clay of the particulars slapped into one of the five generic news story molds, as in this particular Iowahawkian example of "decaying industrial town". The Rantingprof is addressing the same behavior in a different way - the story doesn't have to be accurate or make sense, but the tune must be catchy. It's hard to write a catchy tune, so the tunes are usually plagarized.
Happy Monday.
Yet another article where a New York Times reporter portrays American soldiers as just what she expected them to be. She has her stereotypes from what she learned about Vietnam, she saw a couple of documentaries, she's good to go.The fisk starts out with a few wistful chords, builds to a crescendo, explodes in a clash of cymbals, and then the bugles sound and a military man arrives in the comments. I think this works because of the deep, sincere indignation and the hopelessness with which they both write.
Iowahawk succeeds in his parodies because he's so adept at picking up this type of newsie formalism. It's as if you see the clay of the particulars slapped into one of the five generic news story molds, as in this particular Iowahawkian example of "decaying industrial town". The Rantingprof is addressing the same behavior in a different way - the story doesn't have to be accurate or make sense, but the tune must be catchy. It's hard to write a catchy tune, so the tunes are usually plagarized.
Happy Monday.
