THE MANE EVENT
Just Because,The Dish
You know, there’s a lot of stuff in this world that never gets old. Like when Johnny Knoxville connects jumper cables to his privates. Or dancing babies on YouTube. Or Larry David.
But there’s something else that never gets old: reading the comments to articles on AZCentral.com. Listen, newspaper, your days as a news source may be numbered, but we believe you’ve stumbled onto a possible future as a public forum for nut jobs, instigators, and bored housewives who just want somebody to listen.
Check it: So AZCentral does a story on this restaurant in Mesa that’s going to serve lion burgers for the next couple days. Nice score of a story! Writer Stephanie Russo even did a great job covering both sides–from Susan Cooper, the blowhard who raised her arms in disgust and rallied so-called lion-lovers in protest, to the restaurant owner, who’s buying extra bottled water for the potential protesters. (Classy move!)
But just sift through 55+ comments and you’ll find a distraction strong enough to keep you off Facebook for at least 5 or 6 minutes. That’s more attention than we give formerly entertaining time-wasters like The Onion, The Dirty, or The Glass of Wine Sitting in Front of My Monitor.
So Republic, embrace the end of news in AZ. Nobody here really cares. They just want to comment on an article they didn’t understand in the first place … and make entertainment for the rest of us.
Get your lion’s share here: www.azcentral.com
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