I find that I'm often the contrarian. I like holding that position. I could rattle off a list of TV shows and films that are absolutely crap but we'd be here all day. Some of the more notable ones are How I Met Your Mother, Big Bang Theory and IT Crowd which are all absolute guff. I also hate almost every stand up comedian.
I hate every single internet meme, just by virtue of them being one, because I hate bandwagonning. As soon as I see the dreaded 'white blocky font' I immediately know it's not funny. I hate pretty much everything that gets shared on social media, actually. Any kind of message or slogan on top of a picture (you know the ones, about how your aunt is the only person who's a mother, sister and a friend, or how friends are like stars or some shit), or one of those e-greetings with some dull, sarcastic sentence on it. They are, without exception, incredibly boring and unfunny, for people with sense of humour deficiencies.
I think that a newspaper making a retraction should have to dedicate the same amount of column inches to their apology/retraction as they did to the original story. It's a really simple way to ensure more honest journalism.
There's probably more. That'll do for now.
I hate every single internet meme, just by virtue of them being one, because I hate bandwagonning. As soon as I see the dreaded 'white blocky font' I immediately know it's not funny. I hate pretty much everything that gets shared on social media, actually. Any kind of message or slogan on top of a picture (you know the ones, about how your aunt is the only person who's a mother, sister and a friend, or how friends are like stars or some shit), or one of those e-greetings with some dull, sarcastic sentence on it. They are, without exception, incredibly boring and unfunny, for people with sense of humour deficiencies.
I think that a newspaper making a retraction should have to dedicate the same amount of column inches to their apology/retraction as they did to the original story. It's a really simple way to ensure more honest journalism.
There's probably more. That'll do for now.