Posted by
This Guy on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 12:16:25 PM
I just had the most brilliant idea ever, and soon I will be too wealthy to blog. I have to give some credit to the genius of North Korea for the idea, but the seeds of my soon-to-be greatness were actually planted by one
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, former Iraqi Minister of Information.
Three words. Or maybe five. Well, three, but two of them are hyphenated, so consider this as three words with the value of five:
Privately-owned state-run newspaper.
Freedom of the press is entirely overrated. Sure, it's great when news agencies actually report facts, but in a day when a comedy show has as much newsworthy content as network news, it'd be nice to at least have one source that provides only what the government wants us to hear and/or think. So I'm going to start one. Since I don't have any actual government sources (yet), I'll just be making things up, but I doubt that's much different than what goes on in any other journalistic medium anyway.
Articles to follow.