I know that I’m doing a lot of these bonehead comments of the day lately, or at least a lot more of them than my regular entries, but it’s a good news, bad news kinda thing. The good news is that admin here in Not-Bielefeld and surroundings have gone relatively quiet again. The bad news is that I still read CNN for my daily news summary.
Anyway, here’s a gem of a comment about last night’s Eurovision 2023 contest and one of its positive side effects:
“It also catapulted the dockside city of Liverpool – the home of the Beatles – onto the continent’s cultural map.”
Rob Picheta, CNN
Aside from the usual, senseless hyperbole that the mainstream media attempts to pass off as news (anyone recall offhand which city was sitting on the cultural catapult just last year?), can you spot the (other) internal stupidity in the quote? Rob’s even helpfully set it off in hyphens for you …
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