The column that has fun with the smaller mistakes and missteps of Australia’s mainstream mediocre; that pays homage to those sweet little fishes that individually don’t amount to a full meal but collectively can cause a tummy upset over the overall state of the once great and noble craft of journalism in this country.

The regular reader of this column would probably disagree but it is always with great reluctance that the old, bitter and washed-up hacks who compile it highlight what really is a very minor slipup by a reporter whose very solid defence for a very forgiveable error is their youth.

Nevertheless, let’s have just a little bit of fun with Nine National News’ tyro Mimi Becker’s report last night (Friday) on the US military build-up as the Orange Oaf – yep, the bloke who got a third of America to put him back in the White House by promising an isolationist US would not be the world’s police any more – ponders whether to bomb the shit out of Iran again with some ageing munitions that would cost too much to decommission.

Mimi explained that show of military muscle included America’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Fort. (at right, above).

Should we be even poking fun at this young reporter who we think will grow into a damned fine journo in time? There’s a slight chance that when US president Gerald Ford died in late 2006, Mimi might not have even been born. Or at the very least, too young to be getting newspaper ink on her pinkies as she kept up with the world’s news at the time.

Fort. Ford. It’s no biggie, really, is it? So, sorry Mimi!

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But here’s one from last night’s Nine News Queensland bulletin that we will rightly take exception to.

It probably doesn’t say much for what’s coming up in the bulletin that Nine News chiefs feel this silly little bit of what we’ll call mini click bait will keep viewers glued to their seats during the ad break.

That’s when they’ll hear that a vehicle smashed through a brick wall and stopped centimetres from a house.

All totally credible and oh so believable. A bigger brick wall and the vehicle might have even stopped further away from the house!

It’s not only Nine News that carries on with this nonsense; many bulletins we monitor use bullshit hyperbole or the totally misuse of a word to sell a segment. The people who do this should stick with promoting MAFS, especially the show coming up that “will divide Australia!” Yeah, right.

Divide Australia’s morons, more likely.

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