Skip to content
  • Home
  • Because You Love Me…
  • About…
  • The Podcast…
Useless Things Need Love Too

Useless Things Need Love Too

Rants and Ravings of a Misguided Dreamer and Observer

The People’s Eyebrow or: Don’t Believe Everything You Read

Posted on November 13, 2017 By tim@thelessdesirables.com No Comments on The People’s Eyebrow or: Don’t Believe Everything You Read

Salutations™!!

So, today, I was on the phone with a good friend of mine. He’s been in the news a little bit the last couple of days and not for good reasons, and truly, not for the worst of reasons. But, he certainly is in a weird spot where the truth and perception start disagreeing with each other. dwayne-johnson-raising-the-peoples-eyebrow-rock-style_400x400

I will go ahead and warn you this may be a little vague as the particulars are not important, just the message.

I admit that I was one to talk about the situation a little on Saturday when someone told me about it. The sitch was pertinent to me on a personal level and on two professional levels. A place near and dear to me is “closing down,” I heard. I can’t say I didn’t see it coming but I hadn’t talked to the owner in a few months.

I had a long discussion with them this morning and the paper (doing like it does) quoted him correctly but nitpicked the rest of the story and even went to a competing establishment (the owners are friends) and asked people that don’t even live in Winston-Salem about the developments.

As it turns out, the paper basically got it wrong. Again, the quote was right but then the rest of it was ripped apart and made into whatever the “journalist” needed the readers to see. The whole “if it bleeds” thing. Now, I’m not exactly faulting the paper because that’s what they do. I’m a media outlet, to some extent, and I want to make things sound good or more readable. Do I change things? No. I write what I think or know. Am I always right? Not even half the time, at least that I’m told. But, like with this blog and The Less Desirables and The Man Who Ate the Town, especially, I make no qualms about telling the listener or reader to take it as my “view and/or opinion.” Find out the facts for yourself. Go to the source, ask them questions, try the food yourself, try the beer yourself. Again, find out the truth.

I’m not going to go into the “whos or whats.” I would probably mess them up, anyway. But I will say that if you read the paper this weekend, and have any knowledge of what we have in this town, then you know what I’m talking about. It’s also all over Facebook. While some of that is true, the particulars aren’t necessarily.  The moral of the story is: don’t believe everything you read. The truth will clear itself up in the upcoming weeks as we’ll have the only person with the truth and knowledge on TLD to talk about it. From there you’ll get it straight from the “horse’s” mouth.

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

—
“When fake news is repeated, it becomes difficult for the public to discern what’s real.” – Jimmy Gomez (D – CA)

Life as We Know It, Rant Tags:Journalism, News, The Less Desirables, The Man Who Ate the Town, WSNC

Post navigation

Previous Post: Silent Sunday or: The Haul 11/11/17
Next Post: What’s Greenville Got or: Piggybackin’

Related Posts

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame or: Sing It Sister! Life as We Know It
Now Normal Chronicles or: A Day Late Life as We Know It
The Now Normal or: The List Goes On Life as We Know It
Crud For Giggles or: Feeling It Life as We Know It
Not a Haul But a Catch or: My Voice Hates Me Life as We Know It
On Spot(ify) or: Playlisting Life as We Know It

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Archives

  • April 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017

Categories

  • Beer
  • Blogging
  • Food
  • Friend Friday
  • Honeymoon
  • KISS
  • Life as We Know It
  • Movie Review
  • Music Review
  • Podcasting
  • Product Review
  • Rant
  • Records
  • Silent Sunday
  • Sounds Like Saturday
  • Spinning Sunday
  • Spirits
  • Talking Tuesday
  • The Less Desirables Network
  • Travel
  • Uncategorized
  • Video
  • Wine

Recent Posts

  • Still Ticking or: The Tenth Second Birthday
  • Spinning Sunday or: The Haul 2/19 and 2/26
  • Silent Sunday or: Big Game Day
  • Spinning Sunday or: The Haul 2/5/22
  • Spinning Sunday or: The Haul 1/29/22

Recent Comments

  1. Georgia Modica on Fabriqué en Chine or: I’d Buy That For $1
  2. Damien on The End of an Era or: Thank You All
  3. TGBII on  He Occasionally Takes an Alcoholiday or: The Wake (2543 + 14)
  4. Damien on Spinning Sunday or: The Haul 10/9/21 (2535 + 22)
  5. Damien on  He Occasionally Takes an Alcoholiday or: The Wake (2543 + 14)

Copyright © 2023 Useless Things Need Love Too.

Powered by PressBook Masonry Dark