Journalism

"Journalism"

A young man graduated from University of
Arkansas with a degree in journalism. His
first assignment for the newspaper who
hired him was to write a human interest
story. Being from Arkansas, he went back
to the country to do his research.

He went to an old farmer's house way back
in the hills, introduced himself to the farmer
and proceeded to explain to him why he was
there. The young man asked, "Has anything
ever happened around here that made you
happy?"

The farmer thought for a minute and said,
"Yep! One time one of my neighbor's sheep
got lost. We formed a posse and found it.
We all screwed it and took it back home."

"I can't print that!" the young man exclaimed.
"Can you think of anything else that happened
that made you or a lot of other people happy?"

After another moment, the farmer said, "Yeah,
one time my neighbor's daughter, a good
looking girl, got lost. We formed a big posse
that time and found her. After we all screwed
her, we took her back home."

Again, the young man said, "I can't print that
either. Has anything ever happened around
here that made you sad?"

The old farmer dropped his head as if he
were ashamed and after a few seconds
looked up timidly at the young man and
said, "I got lost once...."
Received on Thu Aug 10 04:10:36 2006