Like August 12th, when grouse shooting starts, 17th July marks the annual opening of silly season. This year is expected to be a bumper year, what with all the heat and everything driving us all nuts.
Schools have broken up an the Governments Spin Machine has been unplugged. Recurring reannouncements of the same old deferred initiatives which are yet to come into effect have ceased to be released. This combination of events produces the same rash of headaches amongst newspaper editors every year and the same nausea amongst readers. Made Up News readership rises dramatically and we have to start litigating furiously when newspaper proprietors have to choose between printing have a dozen blank pages or lifting all our news items to fill the space. During July and August, Made Up News leads the way in making the news.
As usual we are first to the spot for "80 year old Devonian swims the Atlantic - twice - in half an hour", our exclusive "Queen's Chip Pan blamed for Windsor Castle Inferno" and our top scoop, "Tom Cat Pees on Itself to Ward Off Hoodie Gangs."
Yes...for six glorious weeks, you can read nothing but made up rubbish in all newspapers. At least its more entertaining than the rubbish made up by politicians for the other forty six weeks.
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