A running digest of the latest Ferret headlines
The Munificent Swaggerer: Ferret Fired From Ukraine’s Only English-Language News Rag
No, no, it’s not true! I left on my own terms.
Yeah, sure you did.
What’s that supposed to mean? I’ll sue you for defamation!
Meanwhile, The Hostile Curmudgeon reports:
Munificent Swaggerer Gets Ferret Story Wrong
Ferret Leaves World Window Through Ukraine on Own Terms
Heh, heh, it was all my idea. No one masterminds me!
But The Cross-Atlantic Sally has this to say:
Top Int’l Outlets Upset Balance of Powers With Phony Ferret Tale
Reporting World Turns Feral Over Ferret
Two top print and virtual media outlets, which shall go unnamed due to precautions against libel suits, reporting one story from opposite ends, struck a raw nerve with the universal reporting community in that The Ferret they wrote about was an imposter.
But he’s an imposter anyway, one of the two said, speaking for both, so we don’t really see what the meaning of this intra-sectoral basting’s all about.
We countered: Interviewing The Ferret is one thing, but interviewing someone pretending to be The Ferret is a whole different ballgame. Now no one knows what to believe.
That’s right, heh, I set them up. I sent someone else in there to do the job for me.
But were you fired, we asked, or weren’t you?
Heh, I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Pan-Global News Bites writes:
Real Ferret Found – Fired!
Stories Regarding Ferret Imposters Good Enough
Because, as we say here at News Bites, If the shoe fits, wear it, or, There’s no story like some story.
No one can sue our friends for defamation. Whether they got the real Ferret for the story or not, they good-faith conscientious and ethical dug up their sources as a means to an end, and all the ends are the same, or, as we here say, It doesn’t matter how you get there, just get there.
No, no, I wasn’t fired! I’ll sue you, I’ll sue! Heh, heh, heh-heh-heh. I left on –
You were fired!
Left on my own terms!
Fired!
Left on my own terms!
Fired!
The Star Culprit quips:
We Want No Part of It – Meaning The Ferret
We’re not reporting on The Ferret because we know whatever it is, it’s a lie.
Left on my own terms!
Fired!
No, heh, heh, that’s not true – I left on my –
You were fired!
Left
Fired
Left – I control my destiny – and that of others too – heh-heh-heh
To be cont’d
Filed by Jack Step, February 4, 2013