funniest headline I've ever read

[Rambunctious]

Venezuela to import 50M rolls of toilet paper after government claims it's wiped out | Fox News

 

[B. Kidd]

Next, they'll have to import bleach to get all of the skidmarks out.
The legacy of Hugo Chavez.

 

[Pogo]

Toilet paper is "Media"??

 

[whitehall]

The quazi socialist corrupt country is the 5th largest oil producer in the world but the poor people have to use coconut leaves to wipe their asses. What does that tell you about the direction the US is headed under Barry Hussein?

 

[Kooshdakhaa]

Toilet paper is "Media"??

No, but "headlines" are media.

 

[MeBelle]

"We are going to saturate the market so that our people calm down."

Read more: Venezuela to import 50M rolls of toilet paper after government claims it's wiped out | Fox News

 

[Pogo]

Toilet paper is "Media"??

No, but "headlines" are media.

Headlines are carried in media, but that's the content of the media -- not the media. If we went by that, all news would end up in "Media".

It just baffles me that there are people here who don't understand what "media" means. Never associated it with toilet paper.

 

[The Professor]

One of my favorites:

“KEY WITNESS IN LIQUOR PROBE TAKES FIFTH”

But there is another one that embarrassed the hell out of one woman. She was in a golf tournament that involved playing on multiple courses in the area. Since she had the highest combined score, the newspaper headline proclaimed her to be the “State Intercourse Champion.” They even had a photo of the lady.

 

[blastoff]

The best headline ever IMO had to do with Ike and Tina Turner, especially if you're aware of their tumultuous relationship, announcing Ike's passing...

Ike Beats Tina Turner To Death...

 

[Sarah G]

Venezuela to import 50M rolls of toilet paper after government claims it's wiped out | Fox News

Of course nobody ever accused Fox News of understanding comedy at all..

Funniest headline ever..

 

[Sarah G]

Toilet paper is "Media"??

It's right up there with fart jokes.

 

[Kooshdakhaa]

Toilet paper is "Media"??

No, but "headlines" are media.

Headlines are carried in media, but that's the content of the media -- not the media. If we went by that, all news would end up in "Media".

It just baffles me that there are people here who don't understand what "media" means. Never associated it with toilet paper.

You don't get the connection between "headlines" and "media"? You don't understand how the media slants things, makes things seem humorous or dire, lures the reader and sensationalizes news events by their choice of wording in their headlines? Their choice of wording in general, actually.

Read "Bias" by Bernard Goldberg.

It's not about the fucking toilet paper, it's about the HEADLINE. Which is about the media and how they operate. How they word things. How they use language to sway the reader/viewer. In this case they kind of make a mockery of a serious situation, whether intentional or not.

 

[Yurt]

Toilet paper is "Media"??

It's right up there with fart jokes.

lighten up francis

 

[Pogo]

No, but "headlines" are media.

Headlines are carried in media, but that's the content of the media -- not the media. If we went by that, all news would end up in "Media".

It just baffles me that there are people here who don't understand what "media" means. Never associated it with toilet paper.

You don't get the connection between "headlines" and "media"? You don't understand how the media slants things, makes things seem humorous or dire, lures the reader and sensationalizes news events by their choice of wording in their headlines? Their choice of wording in general, actually.

Read "Bias" by Bernard Goldberg.

It's not about the fucking toilet paper, it's about the HEADLINE. Which is about the media and how they operate. How they word things. How they use language to sway the reader/viewer. In this case they kind of make a mockery of a serious situation, whether intentional or not.

You were actually serious about that??

No, a headline isn't media. Media is used to convey a headline. They're in no way the same thing. Apparently the OP thought "wiped out" was a funny pun. That's not "media" either. It's humor.

A story about media would be something like Fox Noise editing another video, or O'bama appointing an industry insider as the new head of the FCC. This is a story about toilet paper. Please tell me you know the difference. Don't tease me bro. You're saying it's a biased story about toilet paper??

We don't have a media story because it's conveyed through the media; every story is conveyed through the media. That would be like saying every political speech should be in the Automotive section, because the politicians all arrived in a car.

 

[Missourian]

The Venezuelan economy...instead of flush with capital, circling the drain.

 

[Kooshdakhaa]

Headlines are carried in media, but that's the content of the media -- not the media. If we went by that, all news would end up in "Media".

It just baffles me that there are people here who don't understand what "media" means. Never associated it with toilet paper.

You don't get the connection between "headlines" and "media"? You don't understand how the media slants things, makes things seem humorous or dire, lures the reader and sensationalizes news events by their choice of wording in their headlines? Their choice of wording in general, actually.

Read "Bias" by Bernard Goldberg.

It's not about the fucking toilet paper, it's about the HEADLINE. Which is about the media and how they operate. How they word things. How they use language to sway the reader/viewer. In this case they kind of make a mockery of a serious situation, whether intentional or not.

You were actually serious about that??

No, a headline isn't media. Media is used to convey a headline. They're in no way the same thing. Apparently the OP thought "wiped out" was a funny pun. That's not "media" either. It's humor.

A story about media would be something like Fox Noise editing another video, or O'bama appointing an industry insider as the new head of the FCC. This is a story about toilet paper. Please tell me you know the difference. Don't tease me bro. You're saying it's a biased story about toilet paper??

We don't have a media story because it's conveyed through the media; every story is conveyed through the media. That would be like saying every political speech should be in the Automotive section, because the politicians all arrived in a car.

A headline is a media tool. That's why discussing a headline is appropriate in the Media category.

And we're not talking about the "story" about toilet paper. We're talking about the headline. The choice of words in the headline.

Seriously, check out Bernie Goldberg's book "Bias." It talks about how the news media uses words, adjectives, to slant news stories, to mold public perception about various issues. To set a tone. And their choice of these descriptive words often betrays their bias.

And no, it's not a biased story about "toilet paper." The choice of words appears to mock that country's troubles. Make light of them. That's what the bias appears to be about.

For example, someone else might have written the headline, thusly:

"Troubled country struggles with basic needs" and then address the imported toilet paper in the article itself. And lose the description of "wiped out" to describe the toilet paper situation.

Use of words in this manner is just as much a media topic as is editing video, or questionable personnel appointments.

 

[Pogo]

You don't get the connection between "headlines" and "media"? You don't understand how the media slants things, makes things seem humorous or dire, lures the reader and sensationalizes news events by their choice of wording in their headlines? Their choice of wording in general, actually.

Read "Bias" by Bernard Goldberg.

It's not about the fucking toilet paper, it's about the HEADLINE. Which is about the media and how they operate. How they word things. How they use language to sway the reader/viewer. In this case they kind of make a mockery of a serious situation, whether intentional or not.

You were actually serious about that??

No, a headline isn't media. Media is used to convey a headline. They're in no way the same thing. Apparently the OP thought "wiped out" was a funny pun. That's not "media" either. It's humor.

A story about media would be something like Fox Noise editing another video, or O'bama appointing an industry insider as the new head of the FCC. This is a story about toilet paper. Please tell me you know the difference. Don't tease me bro. You're saying it's a biased story about toilet paper??

We don't have a media story because it's conveyed through the media; every story is conveyed through the media. That would be like saying every political speech should be in the Automotive section, because the politicians all arrived in a car.

A headline is a media tool. That's why discussing a headline is appropriate in the Media category.

And we're not talking about the "story" about toilet paper. We're talking about the headline. The choice of words in the headline.

Seriously, check out Bernie Goldberg's book "Bias." It talks about how the news media uses words, adjectives, to slant news stories, to mold public perception about various issues. To set a tone. And their choice of these descriptive words often betrays their bias.

And no, it's not a biased story about "toilet paper." The choice of words appears to mock that country's troubles. Make light of them. That's what the bias appears to be about.

For example, someone else might have written the headline, thusly:

"Troubled country struggles with basic needs" and then address the imported toilet paper in the article itself. And lose the description of "wiped out" to describe the toilet paper situation.

Use of words in this manner is just as much a media topic as is editing video, or questionable personnel appointments.

Once again again, the topic in this piece has nothing to do with the media. At best it's the choice of words in the headline, which has to do with humor. That isn't media. If this were a story about how the paper that ran this headline also owns all the radio and TV stations and all the billboards in town, then it would be a story "about" media.

ALL news stories appear in communications media. If they didn't -- it wouldn't be media and we would have no stories. Again, a story about a political speech isn't filed under "automotive" because the politician always shows up in a car; a story about gas prices isn't filed under "subterranea" because the gas is stored in underground tanks; if your IRS refund check is not what you expected you don't take it up with the post office, et cetera.

me·di·a
1 [mee-dee-uh] Show IPA
noun
1. a plural of medium.
2. (usually used with a plural verb) the means of communication, as radio and television, newspapers, and magazines, that reach or influence people widely: The media are covering the speech tonight.

Now if you've got a story on how the publisher or writer of this story has a history of working scatological adjectives into their headlines, that would be a story about media, not just in it. And I'd love to see it. But this is a story about toilet paper.

I don't need a book to know about wording; I worked in broadcast and print media for 25 years. I trained other people on it and I could write that book. That's irrelevant here. The story isn't "biased" because of a goof headline; we could say it's biased because of its second paragraph, but that's not the topic nor has anyone brought it up.

Headlines, with less serious news sources like this one, are written to be attention grabbers, either through overstating the drama or, as here, a simple pun. That's just a teaser getting the reader to look inside the story. It's not in itself "bias" --- unless we're down to an examination of the question of how certain media use cheap tricks of double entendres and overdramatic hype rather than their inherent quality of content.... then we have a story about media. But that's quite a stretch from where the OP started, and not I think what he intended.

 

[Kooshdakhaa]

The topic of this thread was specifically THE HEADLINE. That Rambunctious placed it in the category "Media" tells me he perceived that as a "media" topic, as do I.

I work in the media, right now, by the way, have for almost 20 years.

You keep bringing up the "story about toilet paper." This thread is not about the story about toilet paper. It's about the HEADLINE for the story. The link for the story is provided to give the headline some context. And while a headline's purpose may be to get someone to read the story, don't tell me the way a headline is worded doesn't give the reader some clues as to the reporter's perception of the subject matter of the story.

You even admit my point, though you apparently don't realize it, when you say that headlines are written (by the media) to be attention grabbers. So when we start discussing a particular headline, we are discussing something media has done. So it's ABOUT THE MEDIA.

I give up. You are obviously so full of yourself and your expertise on this topic that your mind is closed.

So you think the OP put this story in the category "Media" because he's not as bright as you are, is that it? Unfortunately, you are not as smart as you think you are.