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elsewhere/media relations: burgers and transplants and speeches, oh my!
...Transplant who to the where, now?

...My, how ... follicular.

Media Relations: burgers and transplants and speeches, oh my!
...[Tonight's closing story on Nightline] dealt with the effect of recession on grooming. To wit: chest hair is back. (Somehow, Nightline failed to notice that, aside from a brief and slightly bemused infatuation with the Bodygroom, chest hair has been back for at least a few years, but ... whatever.) Apparently, in times of trouble, Women Want Real Men, and Real Men Have Chest Hair! (And occasional back hair, but apparently Women Also Take The Good With The Bad.) And they interviewed one whole woman to determine this! To be sure, the story wasn't intended to be taken entirely seriously. The bit about the chest hair transplants was quite serious, however. Men are really doing that....

Even granting that people are getting transplants, the bit about the pubic/belly hair transplant in that second link above is just ... different. I mean ... really different.

But for a true indication of just how weird newsgathering (or alleged news gathering) has gotten these days, I give you: Joe the Plumber, Foreign Correspondent.

Joe Wurzelbacher: Plumber. Campaign celebrity. Foreign correspondent?...Wurzelbacher told WNWO he’s not worried about the potential dangers of his new gig. "Being a Christian I'm pretty well protected by God I believe. That's not saying he's going to stop a mortar for me, but you gotta take the chance,” he told the CNN affiliate....

...No, you don't. Really, you don't. Especially if you're, you know, a plumber by trade (if without license). (Something of a side note: CNN seems to have quite forgotten that, oh yes, his name isn't Joe.)