Let's Play "Journalist!"
OK, kids. It's "Pretend Time!" This is where we all sit around in a circle and PRETEND to be something we're not.
In today's "Pretend Time," we're going to pretend to be journalists in the CNN Newsroom. They play "Pretend Time" every day, too!
THEY pretend to be JOURNALISTS!
OK, as the one here with actual journalistic experience (30+ years in print/radio), I'll be the managing editor. I'll assign roles as we go along. Just read your part out loud and we'll PLAY together. Won't that be FUN!
Let's begin!
COPY BOY/GIRL: Jeepers, Chief! A story just crossed the wire and it might just be DYNAMITE!
MANAGING EDITOR: Let's have a look. Hmmm. Seems as if Andrew Breitbart has posted a story on his blog indicating that Congressman Anthony Weiner...
NEWSROOM STAFF: (hushed snickering)
MANAGING EDITOR: OK, everyone. Grow up. (Back to reading)...anyway, Breitbart is saying that the congressman seems to have "tweeted" a photo of a bulge in his underwear to some young college girl. Hmmm... Breitbart. He's that guy that tried to ruin Shirley Sherrod's career, painting her as a racist by running a selectively-edited video.
WOLF BLITZER: Yes. He may have... MAY have... a reputation for being a sleaze merchant. A sleaze merchant.
DANA BASH: But don't you (blink) think that (blink) we ought to (blink) at least (blink) take a look (blink) at the evidence (blink) that Brietbart (blink) says he (blink) has?
MANAGING EDITOR: How many times does a guy have to get caught lying before we tell ourselves, "Hmm.... maybe this guy is a liar"?
WOLF: I would say, at least, six.
CANDY CROWLEY: Heck, we gave Bush and HIS people a lot more bites at the apple than THAT! There's probably some former Bush aide on our air lying about something RIGHT NOW!
MANAGING EDITOR: OK, let's see what we have. It's a screen cap of what purports to be Weiner's "YFrog" page.
SANJAY GUPTA: Why frog? Why not chicken? Why not goose?
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