March 3, 2005

Scooped by the Main Stream Media

Alrighty boys, you got us licked. I'm gonna throw in the towel. Y'all were right all along. We pajama clad bloggers wouldn't know a real story if it jumped up and bit us on our Barcalounger shaped behinds. BUt you guys, you professional journalists, you really know how to go out and get a story, don't you.

Yeah, while we're out here sitting in the comfort of our own homes, spouting off quickly researched and linked commentary, you're out there in the trenches, getting the real story.

Updated: 4:39 p.m. ET March 2, 2005

MIAMI - A former topless dancer who was famously cleared of battering a Florida nightclub patron with her “crazy big” breasts has shed her oversized silicone implants and put one of them up for auction on eBay.

Now that's a reporter with a nose for news. Well, maybe not a nose, but some bodily appendage. Yep, Reuters certainly does some fine reporting.

Of course, the fun doesn't end there. After carefully reading the article, I found this amusing disclaimer at the bottom:

Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters.

Whyu is that amusing? Because it appears directly above a link to print a copy of the story, and another link to e-mail it to a friend.

Is a permalink "written permission?"

Now then, now that I know how the big guys get their stories, I think I'm going to get into investigative journalism myself, and head down to the local "Gentleman's Club", and conduct some field research.

Posted by Rich at March 3, 2005 11:41 PM | TrackBack