Media Fishing
I’m a terrible fisherperson. I’m a terrible fisherperson because I’ve got the same shit rod that I stole off my brother when he was 10 and when I go fishing it’s in the middle of the day, after a few beers, at a spot that no self-respecting sea creature has visited since the last ice-age, the hooks are rusty, blunt, older than me and the bait I use was bought from the servo last Christmas and has been left in the freezer for 18 months. If you want to be a good fisherman you need a carbon fibre rod, you need to get up very early in the morning, you need to spend a hell of a lot on your bait and you need hooks that have been chemically sharpened. A good boat doesn’t help either.
No surprise then, that if you invest $150,000 on the expedition and cast off into the middle of a calm, hungry media pond after a minor war has gotten boring and before a new President takes office, you’ll get a few bites. So many bites in fact, your website won’t be able to cope with the load.
Brilliant stuff.
Tags: Fishing
Nathan Bush
January 14th, 2009 at 10:41 am
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Ouch. Guess we can see that bandwidth is one drawback of living on an island.
I read an article saying how they tried to keep this promotion to UK media outlets so that they could roll it out there first. Then, announce it to the Australian and rest of the world media. Surely they must have know, with the arrival of these internets, that once it’s out, it’s out.
cos
January 14th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
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I like it. I hear a good tackle helps too.