What do you call it, dear worst-reader? After attempting a google search here and a wiki peak there, I’m as confused as ever. Is it…
- Mud Bogging
- Mud Pit Racing
- Mud Run
- Peanut Butter Mud Race (seriously, I found this in a search and the name comes from the colour of the mud)
- Deep Pit?
Indeed. The list goes on. But we’re not here to worst-blog about the fun #americants so fastidiously invent for themselves. No. We’re here to address the issue of so-called fake-news. Or is it fake-newz?
The links below that motivated this worst-post detail the intricacies of how really, really stupid people in the first world can be taken advantage of because, (relative) wealth, comfort, boredom and #american public schooling will cause people to fall for anything. I think someone famous once called it:
…A sucker born every minute
Which brings me to Faceblahblah (you know what I’m worst-referring to). Now don’t get me wrong. I use Faceblahblah–even though only as a spring board for the content I create through my worst-writing. I also use it to communicate with a few old friends. So I’m not condemning the service. To each his/her own! Same goes for mud racing, btw. In fact, I’d love to attend one of those races someday. Well, maybe not. I reckon I’m gettin’ too old for that sort of thing. Nomatter.
According to some (real?) news I read this morning, without Faceblahblah there would be no fake-newz. Can that be? I mean, seriously? Faceblahblah is in part responsible for fake-newz? If what the real newz reporters are saying is true, well… Boy are we in trouble.
Still. I gotta hand it to those young folks in places like Macedonia. That they can post fake-newz on Faceblahblah and because of the stupid people in #americant that click on it they actually make click-money from advertising. Wow! More power to ya, Macedonians. And I’m sure, as soon as you save up enough from your fake-newz earnings, you’ll be on the first plane to Mississippi or Alabama or bumfcuk #americant to have some fun in the mud.
Links that motivated this post:
Rant on.
-t
worstwriter 
Heh, not helped by web sites that allow one to generate bogus but authentic-looking headlines, newspaper clippings, etc. But then, traditional journalism seems to have morphed into “info-tainment” sometime after CNN hit the scene. Are journalism’s traditional prerogatives so important seeing as the big media organizations seem to have left them behind ? The entire world seems a propaganda operation anymore. Or is it all just more blatant these days ?
On the one hand there’s propaganda and the other hand waves through a cloud of cynicism. Either way “news” does seem to have an agenda. Thanks for you comment.