Monday, July 07, 2003

Yellow Journalism Other Than Fox News

From Jim Capozzola's TRR: The Lighter Side of Rittenhouse comes news of the Worst Job in Journalism:

"Confronted with a noxious puddle or pile, who ya gonna call?

The Daily News Stinkmeister, voice of the pee-and-poop-plagued public.

Phone Stinkmeister's hot line: 215-854-2600.

Or e-mail Stinkmeister: stink@phillynews.com

Stinkmeister will investigate as many calls and e-mails as possible and will mention the worst offenders in future reports."

Not only must the reporter investigate the odoriferous locations, he or she must rank them as well. I can think of many journos who are particularly well-suited for this job.

Update (7/8): Maybe Poynter should have a seminar on the risk that a bodily fluids reporter will manufacture the news.

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