Great Moments in Journalism: We Hope She Had SafeSearch On
Okay, Friday, last nominee. There'll be a poll for all you sorry suckers still stuck at work toward the end of the day. Your final choice follows. Please send us more articles, we need something to leaven all the spam.
We had a couple of options today. We could have gone with what's got to be one of the crappiest ledes ever ("You can learn a lot about people from what they throw in a river.") We could have gone with a review of Snakes on a Plane that looked at the movie from the eyes of generation who came to adulthood after September 11. (Trust us, you're better off not knowing.) But instead we decided to go with this:
The 10-year public saga of JonBenet Ramsey is evidence of this pedophilia obsession, as well as fuel for it.
Call the phenomenon pedophiliaphilia. That's what I was going to name it until I googled "pedophiliaphilia" and learned that the word was already floating around the ether, though not always in the way I mean it.
Yeah. That'll happen.
JonBenet saga troubling for yet another reason [Chicago Tribune]