DEREK 360: Crass Mistake or Exciting New Idea?

Recently in Stockholm, Sweden a porn movie was visible on a monitor in the background during a late night five minute news update. The news was Swedish and the porn was identified as being Czech. Supposedly the people at the news station had been watching a sports program earlier in the day on the channel, Canal Plus. Unfortunately for the newsdudes, Canal Plus plays X-rated movies after a certain time in the evening. They left the monitor on to better give the news break that whole "we've got lots of monitors on lots of different television stations to better demonstrate that we are finely tuned into the news of the world" look. It is also known as the "we look smart" look. It's popular in newsrooms across the world. The porn was on for like a minute before a producer named Per Yng (really awesome name) turned it off.

On one side of the coin I can see this as being a crass and disgusting mistake. What if a little kid had been watching this late night news break? The kid would have, no doubt, grown up to be a sexual deviant with a fetish for Czech sex on tiny screens.

However, on the other side of that porno-mixed-with-news coin is the beginnings of an exciting new idea. What if we incorporated elements of porno into all news? What if Charles Gibson was reading the news in a field packed with naked chicks dancing with one another? How about Barbara Walters standing in a sweaty room populated by three dudes and one chick? She can read the news while the other four people do...other things. We could have Bill O'Reilly move the whole O'Reilly Factor team from his rad studio set to a farm filled with "naughty animals"? We could incorporate porno into all elements of the news and we could...hmmm.

Yeah, this is a really bad idea. Crass mistake Sweden, crass mistake.

To all of the journalists who read this blog, I apologize.
-Derek