Please, for the love of god, let this cliche die. It's just not funny.

The Glass Dragon


Please, for the love of god, let this cliche die. It's just not funny.

seconded.

queue "I see what you did there owl/fry/other pic"

Please. This cliche is less annoying than the "your dog wants.." and "find sarah connor" ones and they are noticably older.

This one just doesn't make any sense. Seems a bit like a "shill" headline. Hmmm, I wonder who might have submitted this?

That Dog Won't Hunt
sorry

*Yaaawwwwnnnn*

Please. This cliche is less annoying than the "your dog wants.." and "find sarah connor" ones and they are noticably older.

Those may be older, but those aren't posted on the main page every freakin' day.

Actually, so far I like the book better than Fark TV.

A cliche is way past is sell by date when it's used for a headline about oil prices not changing. I mean, that's practically the definition of a non-story.

/DNRTFA and neither did anyone else I'd bet

/approves of this article.

still $2.699 a gallon here in san diego.
/having a trolley pass kicks ass

Dear Holy FSM, Chapter 1 is good.

Look, I'm not fishing for a TF account, but Chapter 1 is the most coherent description of WTF the media is about that I've read. Ever. And I had a year's subscription to CJR for some reason.

I'd love to see a "1" in the dollars place on the gas price signs again.

Without switching to the price being per liter.

I'd love to see a "1" in the dollars place on the gas price signs again.

Just last night gas here in Atlanta was $1.99 a gallon.

Reading chapter one. I assume the grammar nazis already had a field day with Drew's use of "pour over" as opposed to "pore over" in about the 4th paragraph of the book. Yikes.

Read Chapter 1. I want my 5 minutes back.


/I Keed.

Hold Steady?

FTFB: Right after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, a Fox News reporter on a live feed interviewed the first person he saw: a man walking a dog.

I thought it was before Katrina hit. Fire the editor

Drew: You should name a star after every FARKER's Login Name and copyright them (in book form, of course), and sell that for $19.95. Sales to TotalFarkers should be huge.

Gas just went from $1.92 to $2.05 here in good ol' West Lafayette. Jerkbags.

Does Anyone know what the national average was for a gallon of gas when oil was this price before (you know on the way up) ?

I think a different fark thread I read earlier this week (that was pretty much the same as this one) said somewhere around $1.40/g.

Gas is close to dropping below $2/g here, so I expect something to happen very soon. I haven't heard the "expensive winter additives" excuse yet...

Although this link suggests otherwise:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_price_increases_of_2004-2006

1.93 here in MN :D

2007-01-19 03:00:33 PM warr6301

1.93 here in MN :D

I saw $1.87 this morning in the south metro...

I guess invading Iraq for oil must be true.

Gee, what a keen observation the book makes: Today, we have 24 hours to fill with news instead of 30 minutes. Amazingly insightful.

Good lord, Drew, how self-important can you be?

Maybe I'll get banned now, but talk about believing one's own hype. Fark is a snarky, '90s-style newsfilter. Nothing more, nothing less. It's not a TV show. It's not a book of social and media commentary. It's not a "news aggregator." It's a website with user-submitted links and comments. Get over yourself.

At least newspapers (and to a certain degree TV networks) actually put reporters in places like, you know, city halls and legislative chambers, instead of the bloggers and message-board posters who just sit back and take potshots at the journalists trying to do their jobs.

I'm constantly amazed at how freaking ignorant critics of the Mainstream Media (how stupid to capitalize it) are about the business of journalism.

$1.99 for gas here...spent exactly $32 filling up my minivan.

I don't know, crotchie, I like what I read so far of Drew's book. It's actually entertaining. And I might actually buy a copy!

I bet Drew must have read Turn Your Hobbies into Profit or something like that.

crotchie
At least newspapers (and to a certain degree TV networks) actually put reporters in places like, you know, city halls and legislative chambers, instead of the bloggers and message-board posters who just sit back and take potshots at the journalists trying to do their jobs.

I'm constantly amazed at how freaking ignorant critics of the Mainstream Media (how stupid to capitalize it) are about the business of journalism.

Dan Rather

Some cliches will die off of their own crapulence. Others must be forcibly beaten to death. This one isn't quite dead yet.
It's down, but it's still twitching.

It was a dark and stormy night...

jso2897: Some cliches will die off of their own crapulence. Others must be forcibly beaten to death. This one isn't quite dead yet.
It's down, but it's still twitching.

I just come to these threads to see the number and the ferocity of the curses cast on the submitter

Theres a Fark book now?

Sheesh, you'd think the radio spots, the merchandise, the subscriptions, the advertisements, the Fark parties and the TV show would satisfy the attention whoring and monetary wants of just about anyone.

/you'd think

FTFB: "I point this out because, in real life, being a journalist sucks. The pay is horrible, the pressure is high, and they spend the vast majority (if not all) of their time just filling space."

$1.99 in Georgia

BTW:

I work for big oil and I am getting a kick out of these replies.

The main question is:

How much were we paying for gas a few year ago when oil was $50 a barrel?

I'm pretty sure it wasn't $2 a gallon.

Oil prices have dropped quite a bit to their lowest levels in 18 months, but we're still paying $2.61/gal here in the Bay Area.

Last week, I saw $1.98/gal in Dallas, TX.

California gets farked yet again. This place blows.

I got gas in Lansing Michigan for $1.809 yesterday!

Best of luck to Drew with this book. Reading the first chapter though, I see an obvious flaw in his reasoning. TV news isn't filled with junk because it's hard to find enough to talk about for 24 hours. There's plenty of stuff to talk about, but talking intelligently about it takes more brains and money than advertising pays for. CNN can't afford to produce 24 hours of original documentaries per day, 365 days a year. They need to fill that 24 hours as fast and as cheaply as possible.

The other thing is that TV news isn't in business to create content, it's in business to put ads in front of people. Their product is eyeballs, not news, and their customers are advertisers, not viewers. And the customer is always right. So TV news has one essential quality in common with all other TV shows: the ability to generate ad revenue. How can anybody expect TV news to be any different from other TV shows?

Chapter 11 will be the best.

Remember kids, there is no collusion in the oil producing nations and with the petroleum refiners to keep prices artificially high. Nope, none at all. That's why there is not much of a correlation between the price of a barrel of oil and the price of gasoline.

Seriously, end the subsidies to oil companies, demand alternative fuel vehicles from the auto manufacturers (who don't give a shiat about the price of gas, only their bottom line in selling cars), and support the creation of bio-diesel "refineries" and ethanol producing facilities (and please stop supporting NIMBYism that farks up any attempt to get us off fossil fuels, like refusing to allow the production of nuclear plants anywhere near you, preventing any switch to hydrogen).

or you can just grab the e-book off of a torrent site.

surprisingly it's only on 2 trackers, and 2 seeds.

California gets farked yet again. This place blows.


Understatement of the year.

California here as well. Was 2.49 Yesterday filling up, and that was at the cheapest place in Escondido. Why to they screw us so much?