The poor little, neatly folded Twix Wrapper was trapped under this sign for nearly 4 days. It whimpered andsniffled and kept singing the KitKat theme song (oddly). I went and checked on it every day to see how it was doing. Other News Reporters were there of course, similar to when a kid get trapped in a well. If we were to simply pull it out and toss it in the trash, we'd be messing with our own story. It's a question of journalistic integrity. I'll do anything for a story, especially if it's a completely ridiculous non-story. I'll even make things up, that's how dedicated I am to internet journalism (just like all the other internet "journalists" out there). There's a Billy Wilder film called Ace In the Hole starring hambone-extraordinaire Kirk Douglas as a scummy journalist out of Albuquerque who keeps a guy stuck in a cave so he can break the story and get back to working a big-city beat. My dad hated Kirk Douglas and said he was a schmuck. |