grodscorp@grods.comTeachers, sharks form unholy alliance
 | Posted by Bridgit Gread on Wednesday 9 April 2008, 2:56 pm Categories: Education, Media Tags: Tags: logicalfallacy, sharks, teachers |
Usually when two unrelated events are juxtaposed nobody gives a toss - except tabloid reporters. To them, some chains-of-events are logically connected. Teachers go on strike… kids get day off school… kids go surfing… kid gets bitten by a shark and dies… teachers indirectly responsible. Otherwise why would just about every major media outlet mention the teachers’ strike within the first two or three pars of their stories? And then there’s this buffoonery in their online comments:
Let’s hope that the teachers who were on strike, and in particular the teachers who would normally have been teaching Brock and Peter today, suffer lifelong guilty consciences because of their ultimately deadly decision not to work today. It’s time teachers woke up to themselves, and realised that their petty strike actions can have potentially far-reaching and disastrous effects way beyond the reaches of the classrooms and innocent children they desert. Yet another nail in the coffin of teachers’ credibility? You bet. RIP Peter.
Posted by: ausGeoff of Frankston
Of course if it wasn’t teachers - and perhaps sharks - then it would barely rate a mention. Otherwise we should expect to see similar stretches of logic like:
McDonald’s outrage: kid hit by truck while crossing road for burger
…or…
Man dies from heart attack while jogging; family sues Adidas
…or…
Blogger electrocuted while reading GrodsCorp; Editor to blame
GrodsThink Ep.31 (16/9/08)
