There was an article to clarify the fact there were no NAZI cows (Blog: The NAZI Super Cows - Today's Excellence in Journalism Award) but facts will never deter a modern journalist and the story is back (Red Orbit: Bovine Kampf: Aggressive Nazi cattle sent to slaughterhouse).
As to NAZI cows in the 1920s, starting in 1923, Hitler was in jail for five years and there was probably not much emphasis on bovine breeding programs in the German prison.
Brett Smith of Red Orbit writes: The Nazis of Interwar Germany may be mostly dead and gone now. But one thing still remains: their cows – and they are pissed.
In the Annals of Crackwhore Journalism, the above really deserves a prize. There's a point by point refutation of the rubbish from the first Red Orbit article in the original one I wrote but here's one more clarification in that Heck cattle breeding programs continue to this day and at least half a dozen varieties of cattle are involved.
This story has come to exemplify modern reporting in which the reporter may be aware of the parody and is playing with it. If you have a moron editor who tells you to give him something sexy then maybe you write something like this knowing the editor is too dull to detect the sarcasm and you get a paid laugh out of it. Maybe.
As to NAZI cows in the 1920s, starting in 1923, Hitler was in jail for five years and there was probably not much emphasis on bovine breeding programs in the German prison.
Brett Smith of Red Orbit writes: The Nazis of Interwar Germany may be mostly dead and gone now. But one thing still remains: their cows – and they are pissed.
In the Annals of Crackwhore Journalism, the above really deserves a prize. There's a point by point refutation of the rubbish from the first Red Orbit article in the original one I wrote but here's one more clarification in that Heck cattle breeding programs continue to this day and at least half a dozen varieties of cattle are involved.
This story has come to exemplify modern reporting in which the reporter may be aware of the parody and is playing with it. If you have a moron editor who tells you to give him something sexy then maybe you write something like this knowing the editor is too dull to detect the sarcasm and you get a paid laugh out of it. Maybe.
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