The 5 Ballsiest Lies Ever Passed Off As Journalism

[PVnRT]

That is the title of the article, not mine. It's unfortunate, but it's a very funny article.

Cracked.com

"Stephen Glass and Dateline are opportunists. Ben Franklin's a Grand Imperial Dick Wizard and Mark Twain just likes screwing with people. But Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, ladies and gentlemen, are the fathers of yellow journalism.

In the late 1800s, Joseph Pulitzer (owner of The New York World) and William Randolph Hearst (owner of The New York Journal) were engaged in a vicious battle over who had the larger circulation. In an ethically questionable display of one-upmanship, the two media giants dick slapped moral reporting several times a day to out-circulate the other, each paper coming out with a story more sensational than the other paper published the day before."

Edit: fixed link

[Blue_Tires]

1. great stuff...

there are a lot more instances they could have used, but its still a great piece

[Blue_Tires]

2. a browse around Cracked.com shows quite a few interesting things...

this especially: http://www.cracked.com/funny-212-boobs/