October 17, 2007

Another pogostick moment

You know, it's a wonder that The Onion can remain in business when the mainstream press keeps digging up and buggering the corpse of satire. Via Hoodlumman comes this amazing example of digging deeply enough into a good news story to find bad news:

As violence falls in Iraq, cemetery workers feel the pinch

By Jay Price and Qasim Zein, McClatchy Newspapers
Tue Oct 16, 2:40 PM ET

NAJAF, Iraq — At what's believed to be the world's largest cemetery, where Shiite Muslims aspire to be buried and millions already have been, business isn't good.

A drop in violence around Iraq has cut burials in the huge Wadi al Salam cemetery here by at least one-third in the past six months, and that's cut the pay of thousands of workers who make their living digging graves, washing corpses or selling burial shrouds.

Few people have a better sense of the death rate in Iraq.

You just can't make this stuff up.

On the upside, it gives me another chance to resurrect this picture:

And now, I'm going to go throw up...

Posted by Ken S at October 17, 2007 06:16 AM | TrackBack (0) | Category: Drinking the Stupid Juice
Comments

C'mon, Ken! The MSM has a mandate* to go where no sane person has ever gone before, to seek out victims, where ever they may be, no matter how trivial or inconsequential.

And certainly, no matter how stupid it makes the MSM look.


*: From themselves, I know, but still, it's a mandate.

Posted by: The_Real_JeffS at October 17, 2007 06:31 AM

It's the only way these wiseguys could get a story about the reduced violence in Iraq into the paper.

Posted by: McGehee at October 17, 2007 08:05 AM

It's like the reverse of "it's an ill wind that blows no one any good."

or it's finding the cloud wrapped around the silver lining.

Or something.

That said - McGeehee is right.

Posted by: ricki at October 17, 2007 08:19 AM