Sorry, my blog was hacked. Apparently there's a lot of that going around these days, seeing as the Associated Press had their Twitter feed hacked, leading to an erroneous report that the White House had been attacked. Or maybe someone at FilmDistrict was just pushing Olympus Has Fallen. Either way, it's an uncool thing to do. If it had been me hacking them, I would have reported that my high school was closed for the week due to a gas main leak, and see if any of the teachers didn't show up the next day.
Unfortunately, Rupert Murdoch doesn't have this excuse, seeing as one of the newspapers in his Galactic Media Empire reported that two teenagers were responsible for the Boston bombings, forcing those teens into hiding. Of course, f**king Crocodile Dundee over there refused to apologize, saying that the images provided were courtesy of the FBI.
What shocks me is that, although the Twitter feed hacking wasn't even REAL, it still made top headlines across all the major news networks-- AND MY BLOG. So somehow, one misleading 140-character line of text is more important than ANYTHING else happening in the world right now. Yeah, that's right: Anything.
So here's what it comes down to: The Vertco Theorem for Divining the Importance of News!!!
10,000 Massacred Congolese = 5,000 Drowning Bangladeshis = 1,000 Slaughtered Iranians = 500 Starving North Koreans = 100 Genocidal Serbians = 50 Car-Bombed Europeans = 10 Car-Bombed Americans = Whatever Hugh Jackman did today.
Depressing, I know, but if you look at the news, it's the inescapable truth. However, on the upside of news today, France has finally legalized gay marriage. So it's just a matter of time before religious ultra right-wing nutballs start killing people THERE.
Bye!
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