On 1/24/2012 2:34 AM, Invisible wrote:
> On 23/01/2012 06:13 PM, Warp wrote:
>> Invisible<voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>> On 23/01/2012 10:29 AM, John VanSickle wrote:
>>>> Wait, isn't Pipa some gal who's in the tabloids a lot?
>>
>>> I wouldn't know; I don't read comic books.
>>
>> I don't know if that was just a jab at tabloids, or if you a honestly
>> have
>> a confusion of terminology... Either way it's slightly amusing.
>
> Even I'm not quite /that/ dense. ;-)
>
> Seriously though, from what I've seen, your typical tabloid is about as
> factually accurate as your typical comic book. Like comics, they
> sometimes reflect real things which are actually happening in the real
> world... aaaaand then most of the time they contain complete fiction.
> (E.g., MMR causes autism - a claim that to this day has not one shred of
> scientific evidence behind it.)
Yeah. Here in the US, the, "Bat boy born to blah blah family" rag went 
bankrupt, and got bought up by the National Enquirer, thereby proving, 
beyond all doubt, that there wasn't any real news in the latter either. lol

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