Ver meejur
So I've read the QOTW ("It's not like the newspapers currently kicking TV whilst it is down are all that innocent") and the memories of dodgy computer game magazines earlier on.

I edit a magazine (sells 17,000 copies, so not big-league stuff but respectable enough). Here are the dirty secrets of jetsetting international media life according to ChaRleyTroniC:

- the advertising department don't tell us what to do, ever
- we, in fact, don't know who's advertising in the magazine until the copies come back from the printers, i.e. the same time you do
- we don't make up stories, gratuitously libel people, or any of that
- if someone has a pop, we offer the other side a right of reply, in the same issue if we can

Does anyone ever believe me? Do they bollocks.

Because we have a dumb-arsed moron culture of imbeciles in this country who are way too lazy to think for themselves. So instead of figuring that, hey, maybe there are two sides to every story, and maybe they should make up their own mind rather than simply accepting everything on face value, people relapse into received opinion about "huh, the media, what do you expect", conveniently shifting the blame for their own stupidity onto someone else.

And then they go and buy the Daily Mail.
(ChaRleyTroniC is invincible with his chips and cheese, Fri 28 Sep 2007, 12:37, Reply)