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 cannot 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, "Well, I got lost once ..."
Received on Mon Feb 23 06:57:57 2009