cluetrain vs. the news   (quote)

The Article said:
CBS' evening news ran a weekly segment during the 2000 campaign on what comedians were saying, and it's returning this year.

Oh boy. Lewis Black isn't going to be too happy to hear about THIS.

"Three days after September 11th, I got a call from the New York Times. The New York times had NEVER called me before for ANYTHING, they hadn't even called me up for a subscription!

They called me up and asked me how I felt, and I said, 'W...what the fuck are you calling ME for?! It's three days after, call somebody who KNOWS shit! Explain to me, blblblbwWHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!! Get some experts, get ALL the fuckin' experts!! You can wait a week to talk to the assholes!'

'Well, we're interested in what comics are doing.'

Oh, oh, NOW you're interested? Why weren't you interested before, shithead? I'm a topical comic, what the fuck do you think I'm going to do? Go up on stage with a SOCK PUPPET!?

I'd go 'Hi, this is Gigi, she's a lot of fun,' 'Hi!' And after a couple of minutes, 'Hey, you wanna blow me?' 'Yeah, bblblblb.' And that'd be my act!

What do you think? Pretty good??

People'd say, 'Well, he's not as funny as he was before, but at least he's distracting.'"

  -a comment on fark

Everyone knows the news is bullshit... and we as humans in the 21st century have extremely honed bullshit detectors. Humans gravitate towards sincere speech and expression. I could go on about this, but instead I'll just link to my local mirror of The Cluetrain Manifesto. Perhaps this seems a bit non sequitir, but once you read The Article and/or the fark comments about the article, all will become clear.