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Satire on the All-Pervasive Telegraph

"Congratulations, you've broken our record for remaining on hold the longest...As a reward we're cutting you off so you can get on wit the rest of your day."

Trial by Media

'Personally I take all these programmes with a pinch of salt.'

Squeezing the Free Press.

Department of Theatre, Film and Television: Lights...Camera...Unemployment!

News and Magazines. Celebrity gossip. Sports scandals. Political bickering. We're out of the "information age" and well into the "too much information age"!

"And do you, Deborah Tannen, think they know what they're talking about?"

"And now here's Cathie with the hypothetical portion of the news."

Donald Trump Playing Golf With Hair On Fire

BBC - Crisis Management, Damage Control and Liability Supervision.

Difference of Opinion

Meet the Enemy

'Thank heavens! For a minute there I thought it was the news!'

"If I 'HAD IT ALL' it would it be enough?"

'There's nothing on.'

Sci-Fi Museum. New Exhibit. H.G. Wells War of the Worlds. In 1938, Orson Welles broadcast "War of the Worlds," a radio drama about aliens from Mars invading earth. The radio drama was presented as a series of fake news reports about devastation caused by the invading aliens. Many listeners turned in to the program mid-roadcast and thought the news reports were real. Widespread panic ensued. Wow! Orson Welles caused all that panic with a radio program. Just imagine what he could have don

Caution: Driver Watching "Hard Copy"

"And by president we mean the one on Saturday night tv, not the real one. He kinda sucks."

"The regular Fox news commentator was canned for being too soft on Iran. I'm Dick Cheney."

Florida Governor, Rick Scott, cuts funding for rape victims.

"I'm more of a 'How Jen stays thin' person than a 'Why Jen won't let Brad alone' person."

Public Relations: Reputations cleaned and repaired

'Contrary to the popular view, our studies show that it is real life that contributes to violence on television.'

'The sole reason I haven't talked to my wife for five years, is that I was too polite to interrupt her...'

"Here comes a client I must speak to. Excuse me while I slip into some jargon."

"I think before we begin to address me, we need to talk about the clown in the room."

"Which news channel should we watch?"

"Since you have already been convicted by the media, I imagine we can wrap this up pretty quickly."

"This just in: one of us always tells lies; the other always tells the truth. Who's who? Stay tuned."

"It's wonderful to be away from the rat race. So, what happened on 'CSI: Miami' last night?"

"Er...nothing much has happened yet today...."

'My plan for the mid east has approval of both Houses of Congress, Oprah, Larry King, Lettermen and Leno.'

'Apologists today said little white lies -- but not the big lie -- may have played a part in Iraq Policies....'