How'd you like to wake up in the morning after a great nights sleep (or sex) to find that while you were otherwise engaged you had apparently held a press conference and made statements .... that you cant remember? It's time to either reassess your drug use or sue the bastards in the media that let this one out. My advice to Paris Hilton ...Sue the bastards!!! maybe they'll leave you alone for a day or two.
Making News, Without Saying a Word
By JOANNE KAUFMAN
Published: November 19, 2007
As journalistic blunders go, it wasn’t quite up there with “Dewey Defeats Truman.” But last week, The Associated Press had to eat its words after running a news article about Paris Hilton’s supposed desire to publicize the plight of elephants in northeastern India.
For the record, it is apparently true that elephants there get drunk on farmers’ homemade rice beer, then go on rampages. But it is not true that Ms. Hilton, who served jail time this year for violating probation after a drunken driving arrest, told reporters, “The elephants get drunk all the time. It is becoming really dangerous. We need to stop making alcohol available to them.”
The quotation showed up in numerous places after The Associated Press ran an article by a reporter based in India named Wasbir Hussain. An A.P. spokesman described him as a highly regarded and conscientious stringer who had nonetheless inappropriately |
No comments:
Post a Comment