Monday, January 07, 2008
You Read Parade?
With the bar set admittedly low, Parade, the Sunday circular that appears in newspapers across the nation (including The Oregonian, featured a story on January 6, 2008, that must've appeared timely and insightful when first assigned, when turned in, when pasted up.A cover profile on Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto: who she is, why she's important, and what her election might mean for the country.
The piece did omit one minor detail, however: She's dead. In fact, she's been dead since her assassination on December 27.
In its only concession, the piece did allow that there was more information available at the Parade Web site.
Sure enough, readers will find explanations from the editors that the piece went to print on Dec 19, and that they had alerted the newspapers to perhaps run a story about that. Also, that Parade posted the entire piece in advance online.
What I didn't see? A Howard Huge archive. Boy is he big!
In a telling episode (and movie) of the Family Guy, in which the megalomaniacal Baby Stewie meets his adult self, he is horrified to discover this: "You read Parade?!"
Hey, Parade? Stop the presses.
Labels: Benazir Bhutto, Family Guy, Howard the Huge, journalism, Oregonian, Parade
