Sometimes you read something and wonder why people (journalists) even bother. One of the free London papers has a regular column called Funny Old World with short quirkies from all over the world.
While sitting on the tube today I noticed a one-sentence funny ‘piece’ from Poland:
Zielona Gora, a medieval village, has been ordered by the government officials to drop a witch-burning drama from its birthday pageant because it’s deemed sexist.
That’s it. I’m not sure what the point is of such short pieces, you’d probably need the attention span of a fruit fly to find such facts fascinating, but apart from that, one thing struck me about this ‘piece’. Zielona Gora can be described in many ways, but not as a village. Checked it in Wikipedia – over 290,000 inhabitants (just under 200,000 for the city itself). You wouldn’t call York (same size as Zielona Gora) a village, would you?
OK, I’m not claiming my patriotic pride was hurt. I’m more annoyed with the poinlessness of such ‘journalism’, where basic facts go unchecked for the sake of a few (literally, probably) laughs. Ignorance or lame journalism? Or both?
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