Christian Science Monitor Joins Dead Horse Beating Party

For SLReports.net

The Christian Science Monitor, which brought us such cutting edge headlines as 1997's "The World Isn't Flat, We Told You" and 2006's "It Seems To Us That Jesus Was A Jew" joined today in the laundry-list of latecomers to the Reuter's Abandonment Dead Horse Beating Party.

Not satisfied with having merely a publication title that is itself keenly ironic, The Christian Science Monitor even pointed out in their news-recoverage and recycling job "In September, Reuters quietly shuttered its virtual bureau in the online world. (No one seemed to realize until a few days ago.)", The Christian Science Monitor among them.

The Reuter's Abandonment Dead Horse Beating Party has gained a full-tilt since this weekend, when someone within the blogosphere must have reposted parts of Eric Reuter's somewhat scathing appraisal of the Second Life Experience, leading a ne'er-do-well cast of oddballs and low-life publications to join in the festivities.

The Christian Science Monitor's ace reporter Chris Gaylord arrives at the party just as The Register's Chris Williams makes a successful second pass at The Guardian's intuitively perceptive Jack Schofield with his flying penis. Schofield is such a good reporter he makes up things about subjects based on somewhat related experiences that he had decades ago. Chris Williams just likes him for his pipe. Both of them. Gaylord had better watch out for William's sensuous and scandalous ways.

The only original analysis that Gaylord seems to have contrived from his own mind and not simply cut and pasted from other blogs and publications that beat The Christian Science Monitor to the punch comes in the form of five sentences stating, "Now, Reuters joins the growing consensus that staffing an online office isn't worth the effort. They marked yet another evacuation from pixelland. American Apparel and Mercedes-Benz have closed up virtual shop. Sun Microsystems and Starwood have severely pulled back. Each defecting company seems to take a piece of Second Life's legitimacy with it."