3/31/2016, 8:12 am
Blind Item: The Journalist Who Cried Wolf*
First, while working at the Pupils for Freedom Organization, the young journalist girl rushed down towards the village calling out "Wolf, Wolf."
"What is the matter?" the villagers asked. The young journalist girl claimed she was assaulted by a wolf at her Organization. "Tell us which wolf it was" said the villagers, "and we will all gather around to help you." But she never said who it was, and went on her way.
This pleased the girl so much that a little while later she tried the same trick, crying that Senator Allen Wolf groped her, even though there was no proof. Again, the villagers came to her help, and the girl slipped away.
The young journalist girl realized that by calling out "Wolf, Wolf," she could make her news reports much more exciting, and get attention for herself, resulting in more opportunities and book sales. She continued to use this trick of calling out "Wolf, Wolf."
Next, the young journalist girl went into the midst of a turbulent Occupy Wall Street protest, where police had been stationed to keep the peace. But the girl wasn't there to report a story, only to build excitement around her career. Her report was full of claims of "Wolf Brutality." The villagers were incensed, and again came to her defense.
This was not enough for the girl's insatiable appetite for notoriety. The girl approached a renowned actor, who was a promoter of environmentalism. During a crowded protest, the girl claimed that the actor "mauled her like a wolf," and everyone got angry at the actor. The girl's job there was done.
The young journalist girl continued on her way, leaving cries of "Wolf, Wolf!" in her wake, next accusing a TV show creator of "howling at me at a gas station."
Recently, the young journalist girl was pestering a presidential candidate as he wove through a large crowd. The candidate's guards repeatedly told the girl to go away. The girl felt indignant that anyone would tell her what to do, so she continued following him.
Finally, as seen on many different video angles, the girl was getting too close to the presidential candidate, separating him from his protectors. The girl was appalled as one of the group brushed past her, saying "excuse me" and touching her on the arm.
Turning to a fellow journalist looking to write a hit piece on the candidate, the girl said, "Did you see that?" "Yeah," he said. "He almost knocked you to the ground!" "Yeah," the girl replied, "he did! He almost threw me on the ground!"
With this idea expanding in her mind, the young journalist girl went home and fired off a story on her blog: "Member of candidate's Wolf Pack abuses women."
The media, who despise this presidential candidate, immediately came to the girl's aid. A narrative circulated, based off her blog, that the girl was "thrown to the ground forcefully." They encouraged the girl to go to the police and file a report. So she did, three days later, with bruises on her lower arm.
Suddenly, a new video surfaced, that shows the girl was not thrown on the ground after all, nor treated forcefully, but was touched on the upper arm. The villagers started to get annoyed, and questioned the girl's credibility.
Shortly after this, a Wolf actually did come out from the forest, and began to circle the girl, and she of course cried out "Wolf, Wolf," still louder than before. But this time the villagers, who had been fooled many times before, thought the girl was again deceiving them, and nobody stirred to come to her help.
The young journalist girl cried, "Can't you see? I'm a victim! Help me!" But no one cared anymore.
So the Wolf made a good meal off the girl's career, and when the girl complained about being jobless, the wise business developer of the village said:
"A liar will not be believed, even when she speaks the truth."
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*Based off of Joseph Jacob's translation of The Shepherd's Boy (1894)
