Total Solar Eclipse Could Impact Trump

[michiganFats]

I just read this in the Detroit Free Press. Astrologers are worried about the impact of the solar eclipse on Trump and on the nation. I would not normally have posted this in a serious news sub forum but the Free Press is displaying this on their website under a banner that says "Breaking News". I'm not kidding.

http://www.freep.com/story/life/2017/08/18/solar-eclipse-trump-astrology/570025001/


“In this eclipse cycle, it has a pattern throughout presidencies and speaks primarily about abuses of power and how people have overstepped their boundaries in positions of power,” Gordon said.

Yes, they really resorted to this.

[pete311]

Dumb shit that you freely propagate.

[michiganFats]

Dumb shit that you freely propagate.

But it's a link Pete, I thought you liked links.

I understand, you're embarrassed and you should be. The Free Press, your people by the way, just called this breaking news.

[pete311]

But it's a link Pete, I thought you liked links.

I understand, you're embarrassed and you should be. The Free Press, your people by the way, just called this breaking news.

USA Today also bought my cities newspaper. I live in Milwaukee. I haven't read the newspaper since. It's total rubbish.

[Black Diamond]

But it's a link Pete, I thought you liked links.

I understand, you're embarrassed and you should be. The Free Press, your people by the way, just called this breaking news.
Right up there with Britney Spears doesn't wear underwear. :)

[michiganFats]

USA Today also bought my cities newspaper. I live in Milwaukee. I haven't read the newspaper since. It's total rubbish.

Good for you. Now back to the point, what do you think of a newspaper calling this breaking news?

[pete311]

Good for you. Now back to the point, what do you think of a newspaper calling this breaking news?

Part of the problem

[michiganFats]

Right up there with Britney Spears doesn't wear underwear. :)

Is she still alive?

[Black Diamond]

Correlation =/= causation. End of story.

[pete311]

Correlation =/= causation. End of story.

More like astrology is total bullshit. End of story. :cool:

[michiganFats]

More like astrology is total bullshit. End of story. :cool:

Is it really? Are you sure about that?

Of course astrology is bullshit, if it weren't bullshit then a big red banner proclaiming it to be breaking news wouldn't be notable, would it?

For anyone reading from this point on the Free Press removed the banner so now this just looks like a regular interest story but at one point this was on their front page under a big red banner that said breaking news.

[Black Diamond]

My favorite is the Fox News alert (I'm sure the other news channels do this). Every time they have that, you're supposed to think it's like the second plane hit.

[Black Diamond]

Is it really? Are you sure about that?

Of course astrology is bullshit, if it weren't bullshit then a big red banner proclaiming it to be breaking news wouldn't be notable, would it?

For anyone reading from this point on the Free Press removed the banner so now this just looks like a regular interest story but at one point this was on their front page under a big red banner that said breaking news.
I think all networks are guilty of this. But this example takes the cake.

[michiganFats]

My favorite is the Fox News alert (I'm sure the other news channels do this). Every time they have that, you're supposed to think it's like the second plane hit.

I stopped watching FOX a long time ago when they were doing those color coded terror alerts.

[Black Diamond]

I stopped watching FOX a long time ago when they were doing those color coded terror alerts.
Was that theirs? I thought homeland security did that ???

[michiganFats]

Was that theirs? I thought homeland security did that ???

DHS issued them but FOX, I thought, went way over the top when it came to displaying them.

[Black Diamond]

DHS issued them but FOX, I thought, went way over the top when it came to displaying them.
Ahh ok. Agreed.

[Gunny]

My favorite is the Fox News alert (I'm sure the other news channels do this). Every time they have that, you're supposed to think it's like the second plane hit.Is there some point in time there is NOT a "Fox News Alert"?

It's the PC mind set. No story can be just a story if another is "BREAKING!" or "Fox News Alert". That would hurt the story's psyche for being made to feel less important. Hell, if you're "just" average, you suck :) .