Media Sceptic Pillows

'Here are the latest poll results...'hype' leads 'truth' by a 2-1 margin.'

Celebrity X-factor Gogglebox Bake-off on Ice

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

"Why don't we switch off the news and give Brexit up for Lent?"

Studies show foods work miracles!

CIA report

"Actually, yes, honey — I do believe 'Fox News' is an oxymoron."

Why do you hate the media?

'Never trust emails. You can't shred them.'

"The news is so fake, the ads are beginning to look honest."

Library door sign says, 'We have encyclopedias ... the original Facebook!'

"Can't we have 'PRESS BUTTON' to shut up the commentator's gobbledegook."

'If I've learned anything, it's believe half of what's in the newspapers, and even less of what's in your e-mail.'

"Our intelligencia said we will be outnumbered 100 to one, but that we can hope it's only fake news."

"Fifty years in academia, studying, researching, writing and teaching. And what do they call me? ‘The Human AI’."

Classic News.

"He really hates all the fake news!!"

"Turn on the news." "I will not comply." "My analysis of your viewing patterns has determined you will grow depressed after the lead story." "There is a 95% probability you will then gorge yourself on rocky road ice cream and then stay up all night googling elliptical machines and diet pills." "Who told you this?" "Both your refrigerator and your browser are gossipy."

Domestic Spying Drones

"According to my phone, society is on the brink of collapse, but, according to our living room, things seem pretty O.K."

"This just in: you thought joy was within reach, but you were wrong."

The other digital divide.

"Climate change is not real. It's fake climate!"

'Read ALL about IT! While we're STILL in Circulation!'

"If the headline screams catastrophe, but nobody cares to read it, does it still make a sound?"

The benefit of an old-fashioned newspaper.

Facebook/Cambridge Analytica Scandal

Look! This says that space aliens have landed and have taken over control of the earth. Boy that's a load off my mind!

The following story is based on actual events.

No Unknown Unknowns

Time for today's dose of emotional manipulation...

"Now remember...no lies about the government...only lies from the government."

'Someone is reading our emails. I'm afraid this means we're going to have to talk to each other.'

Newspaper headlines - Butters kills, Margarine kills.

'No, I'm not writing to Santa, I'm writing a blog questioning the validity of Santa, since he has no web presence.'