House of Eratosthenes

This is something that’s always fascinated me about headlines. Now keep this in mind: Conservatives think we have a Mainstream Media (MSM) that is biased to the left. Liberals think the media is biased toward monied interests and corporations, and is overly friendly to the right. And the poor, poor journalists in the middle who are being torn up one side and down the other, are completely innocent in all this. Because it’s just facts. They simply report the facts, and there isn’t much opportunity available to inject personal bias into their jobs even if they wanted to. Which they don’t, you see, because their motives are so pure and they are oh so UN-biased. They never bring their personal feelings to their news desks, heavens no.

So when you’re an editor, and your reporter collects facts about a new study that says young girls are having a whole lot more sex and starting it at an earlier age, how do you word that headline? And if you’re the guy writing the article, how do you write your lead-in? Well as a general rule, you’re supposed to make everything look like the beginning of the end of the world. Kids like vanilla pudding better than chocolate? It’s a harbinger of a massive upswing in racism. Smoking is down? Experts see shortfalls in tobacco tax revenues, some vital social programs cut. Spider population is lower this year? Plague of house flies coming. That’s how it’s done. Bad news sells.

So how do we write our headline about these sluts…

Young women lead the way in tearing down sex taboos: new US survey

Young women are leading the way in tearing down sexual taboos in North America, where teenagers are having more sex at a younger age than their parents and grandparents, a new survey showed.

Freewheeling young women in the United States and Canada first have intercourse at the age of 15, partake more in oral sex than previous generations and are far less prudish, according to a landmark new report by researchers at California’s San Diego State University.

So nobody’s lowering their standards. There’s no tell-tale sign here that kids are bored, perhaps becoming disengaged from doing their schoolwork. And absolutely, nobody’s getting pregnant and kicking off multi-generational dynasties of welfare leaches. It’s “leadership”. The sluts are “leading the way” to something.

I just think it’s interesting because let’s face it, if you were looking for “bad news” in this story, you wouldn’t have to look far. Parents of 13- and 14-year-old girls would be particularly interested in your reporting on this social trend, with a concern for the myriad social issues that await them in the next year or two. And for them that would be a useful story. But no. We’re going to drop our “portending the end of life as we know it” routine this one time.

It’s a brand-new cultural renaissance. Our little whores are leading us to enlightenment.

And the MSM is going to objectively report to us all the wonderful events taking place in this new revolution.

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Where Did You Get That Headline?Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

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Tuesday, October 4th, 2005