Monday, October 29, 2007

Hey Newsweek, WTF?

Reading a paper copy of Newseek, I came across a section with the title "The Dignity Index." This purports to rate a particular event of the last week on a scale of 1 to 100, with 1 being "mildly tacky" and 100 being "utterly shameless."

Setting aside for a minute how judgmental and un-journalistic this is, I was a little shocked by the particular items listed in the Index and how they were rated.
From the online edition:

Texas Judge Sharon Keller refuses to keep her court open an extra 20 minutes so lawyers could fix a computer glitch and file a death-row appeal. Hours later, the inmate was executed.
Score: 32

A bittersweet buh-bye to Sen. Larry Craig. Your three-week reign of shame (for ruining Idaho's Hall of Fame ceremony just by showing up) is over. You've been bested. Or worsted.
Score: 73

Pandering for votes, lifelong Yankee fan Rudy Giuliani does the unthinkable: he's rooting for the Red Sox in the World Series. So wrong on so many levels, we're speechless.
Score: 95


What the hell? A judge refusing to wait 20 minutes to give a human being a chance to live rates a 32, and a New Yorker rooting for the Red Sox rates a 95?

Fuck You, Newsweek.

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