Observational Humor

Author: pslock

Date: May 6, 2004

by pslock
5-06-04
Say, have you ever noticed than whenever a news program runs a story on America's problem with obesity, the story is almost always accompanied by random shots of large people's asses?
Yeah....so what's your point?
Well, I'm just curious as to how solid a journalism tactic that is. I mean, when there's a story about a murder, you don't see a collage of photos of dead people, do you?
No, I guess not.
It's like the editors are saying "Well, since people probably don't know what obesity is, we better give them a visual aid of this 450 pound woman's ass."
Look, did you actually want to go somewhere, or not, orrrr...????