I’ve been known to spin a large whale tale or too in my time, but it clarifications and mea culpas seem to be the theme of today’s headlines. Cases in point:
-Hoax of lost Amazon tribe
-Pregnant Teen: There Was No Pact
-Larry Birkhead Clarifies Comments
-Winehouse Dad's Overblown Diagnosis
Why all the exaggeration, jumping to conclusions, or just the out and out lies to and by the media lately? So, there’s no orange people tribe (or there is, but we've known about it for a while), no gang of pregnant teens (just a town with some confused girls), Larry Birkhead didn’t by Anna Nicole’s lingerie for their daughter now (it’s for later, thanks Dad), and Amy Winehouse is not on her deathbed (but we advise she stil should put down the crack pipe). Can we all get our stories straight from here on out? Well, I suppose that would create 100% less news because they wouldn’t need to write a retraction for every story. Maybe we can write longer more truthful articles and call it a day? No? Well, I tried.
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