As an editor, you develop a B.S. meter—an internal warning system that signals caution about journalism that doesn't feel trustworthy. Sometimes it's a quote or incident that's too perfect —a feeling I always had when reading stories by Stephen Glass in the New Republic. Sometimes it's too many errors of fact, the overuse of anonymous sources, or signs that a reporter hasn't dealt fairly with people or evidence. And sometimes it's a combination of flaws that produces a ring of falsity, the whiff of a bad egg. There's no journalist who sets off my bullshit alarm like Ron Suskind.
Jacob WeisbergTags: bullshit journalism anonymity editing fairness objectivity fact-checking new-republic ron-suskind stephen-glass
And they got blackout drunk one night and it just happened. It was basically an accident, and he gave me the most sincere and moving confession of all time, swore to God he loved me so much and would do anything to convince me, blah blah blah, but it didn’t matter, I kept thinking about it and running it through my head and just burning with it. I cried every night for weeks. Practically wore the binary off all my saddest Mp3s.
Isaac MarionTags: bullshit
Money talks, bullshit walks.
Stephen KingTags: money bullshit stephen-king
Bullshit is as common as lame poetry and more unavoidable than
those armed men who are there to protect you from
Bullshit like this is straight from the lab and god loves you and
the government doesn't want war and it's the best movie since
Repo Man and if i stopped drinking the world might end anyway
and breathanarianism and immortality for anything besides
Bullshit that's as common as murder and jailhouse tattoos selling
bunk drugs in paint chip hotels where a cigarette burn on
the mattress tells you more about death than a splatter movie
festival.
Tags: bullshit liars blank-verse brash colloquial sparrow-13-laughingwand
I said never mix business with pleasure. They said it was a pleasure doing business with me.
Nikhil ShardaTags: bullshit puns humourous satire-write
This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably also a Western European, is that there are things we know are right, and good, and would be better for us to do, but constantly it's like "Yeah, but, you know, it's so much funnier and nicer to go do something else." and "Who cares?" and "It's all bullshit anyway.
David Foster WallaceTags: intelligence paradox apathy goodness right bullshit boredom americans europeans
I suppose she only wanted what she couldn't have. Well, people were that way. To hell with people. The Catholic Church had an awfully good way of handling all that. Good advice, anyways. Not to think about it. Oh, it was swell advice. Try and take it sometime. Try and take it.
Ernest HemingwayThe Old Man’s "job" was to ensure success of a certain Pagan holiday celebration–an exact opposite of LDS temple instruction that signified fellow sister-brother’s unification with the Divine.
Judy ByingtonTags: bullshit badly-written fiction-sold-as-true historically-wrong insult-to-pagans utter-nonsense
Listen you little turd, don’t tell me my business. It’s not worth the risk," the Old Man snarled.
"But Green … Yikes, that stings!
Tags: bullshit insult-to-intelligence badly-written-fiction fiction-sold-as-true-crime
getting old means getting lucky sometimes
means sometimes you learn
Tags: sex fuck bullshit luck lucky getting-old
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