Just goes to show

[hils]

When I went to buy my lunch this morning I was shocked to read on several newpaper front pages that Patrick Swayze has been diagnosed with cancer and only has a few weeks to live.

The BBC paints a much more positive picture

I'm much more likely to trust the beeb than I am The Express and The Sun

Comments

[ceci2176.livejournal.com]

The tabloids (incl. Fox News *eg*) sure followed the National Inquirer's report, while more "serious" media liek the beeb waited for news from a more reliable source like his agent and doctor.

[hils.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it just goes to show you shouldn't believe everything you read in the papers

[ceci2176.livejournal.com]

Indeed!

I was in a tabloid once, and they lied about me, too.... *g*

[hils.livejournal.com]

Really? What happened?

*is nosy*

[ceci2176.livejournal.com]

I was at a charity tennis match, and this TV show for kids had already made a 15 min segment on me (took all day!) and for some reason this tabloid was there too (granted, the tennis players were famous) and wrote that "[it] was the best thing that ever happened to me" and that "[my] parents drove the happiest girl in the world home". Little did they, and those who saw the TV show, know that the part where the reporter and I followed the ball with our eyes was staged! *eg*

Oh, and I should perhaps add that I was ten at the time. *g*

[hils.livejournal.com]

Hehe! Well, at least they didn't say mean thing about you. Or claim that you only had weeks to live

[ceci2176.livejournal.com]

Good point. My case looks quite pale in comparison, doesn't it?

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

While pancreatic cancer is very, very serious, the national news media reports that he's doing as well as can be expected.

[hils.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm not saying it's not serious. It's just not as bad as the tabloids made out (one said he only has days to live)

[drusplace.livejournal.com]

I hear he's released his own statement saying yes he has cancer, but that he's not as bad as first reported. This is sad. I love Patrick!

[hils.livejournal.com]

Me too :(

[talesofmicetea.livejournal.com]

They said on the news last night he has cancer but it's small and he's working while going threw the treatment.

micetea

[hils.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what the BBC said. The newspapers were all 'PATRICK SWAYZE IS GOING TO DIE RIGHT NOW' *eyeroll*

[talesofmicetea.livejournal.com]

Sounds like the Inqusiter:/ No wonder Clark likes the Daily Planet.

[hils.livejournal.com]

Hehe! Yes, he chose wisely

[lexalicious70.livejournal.com]

Oh those dumb mags . . . you know them, the death hags. Ours are saying the same thing.

[hils.livejournal.com]

*eyeroll*

There's really no need for it