Well I have been planning to do this for a while but I have finally got arround to doing it. This is the new look Product of Political Correctness that I downloaded off btemplates.com, It has some great content there so if you have a blog then I would recomend that you give them a look. Also I will begin doing the 'Product of Political Correctness Comic Strip' again so look out for that and I hope that you also come back for Jack and Peter's articles that they while start posting again. 

Originally saw this reported on in a cringe-worthy WROL.com report.

What an amazing opening ceremony in Beijeing! Truely spectacular. China was able to draw on it's greatest national assest, its population and put on one hell of a show for the rest of the world. With political and environment turmoil circling the build up to the Olympics, it's no suprise that the negative aspect of reporting has transferred into stories that should atleast attempt to spin possitive messages.

It's only Day 2 of the Olympics and already I'm seeing such words as "disappointing" and "failure" thrown around in stories to do with athletes that finish much lower in their race/event than expected.

Give me a break! World Records are being smashed left, right and center. The bar has well and truely been lifted, pardon the pun. When there can only be one winner of ten, we take it upon ourselves to grind the other "losers" into the dirt. We forget that it is a sheer privledge to even be in the Olympics and that these competitors have been through so much to be where they are now.

Dissapointing. Sports journalism, you're leaving much to be desired and are currently running for bronze.

Found this from Metro.co.uk but originally heard it on The Russell Brand Show;

"Authorities in Arkansas say an inmate escaped a county jail and left behind a rose fashioned out of toilet paper because he felt sorry for breaking out.
Luis Camacho-Mendoza was recaptured a day later in a home in the town of Van Buren after police received a tip.
Investigator Ken Howard said Camacho-Mendoza was found hiding in a closet in a pile of clothes with a pillowcase over his head.
"But he wasn't hiding too good because you could see the outline of his head in the pillow case," Howard said. "We all grabbed him pretty quick and he didn't seem to be resisting.
...
When the inmate was discovered missing, authorities also found the flower, Howard said.
"When we asked him about that, he said he felt sorry for the captain for escaping," Howard said. "(The flower) looked pretty nice."

Wentworth Miller, eat your heart out.

After reading the Monday edition of The West Australian, I noticed an all too common trick used by the media.

This would be the photo of a grieving family, heads hung in sorrow, paraded before the photo lense. I, for one, am sick and tired of it. I have no doubt that a family is currently in the proccess of mourning for a loved one or family member, but to go in front of a camera and display these emotions in a staged fashion - and for what!

Whenever I see a photo like this attached to newspaper stories I cringe and personally lose all sense of sympathy for the victims. Once these photos are used the story seems unbelievable and almost as if the family has an secondary motive.

Why do the families need stage these photo shoots, why does the journo feel it will add to the story and what the hell is the newspaper doing by publishing them?

I hate it. There is nothing worse or more pointless then a chain letter. I seriously do not understand what the writers of them get out of it. I got one today on my Myspace and it said, and I quote.

MUST PLAY! OR A MAN WILL APPEAR BY YOUR BED WITH A KNIFE AND WILL KILL YOU! THE ONLY WAY TO SAVE YOUR LIFE IS TO PICK THE CONDOM THAT REPRESENTS YOUR LOVE LIFE!OH BY THE WAY, DO NOT IGNORE THIS BECAUSE IF YOU DO HE WILL COME AT THE TIME 3:16 AT NIGHT AND KILL YOU! - Random Myspace Post.

What the hell! Who would get kicks out of writing that and who would believe it. I am getting sick of seeing these posted on myspace, forums and also in e-mails . We must do something about it.

If you believe we should do something, repost everywhere you can think of. If you don't, something may or may not happen to you.

This year I've decided to hit the reading hard. My original plan was to read 100 books in the year. As you might guess, I'm struggling to meet the deadline. However, the latests book I have finished and placed back on the shelf is Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie.

If you're unaware of the book, the basic gist is that of a dying 76-year old Morrie who, on his deathbed, is reunited with his old college sociology student. Touching stuff, I know.

However, I had a bit of a problem with this book. See, Morrie was something of an optimist and always saw the brighter side of life, but along with this, he spent most of the book preaching pearls of wisdom to Mitch (his 30-something protege). Why do someone's words carry more credence once they're dying? After all, aren't we all dying?

Why went someone is in the autumn moments of their life, do they suddernly become some sort of visionary savior with all the answers? If people didn't bother to listen before, why do they listen once death is knocking at the door? In my opinion, just because someone is dying, it doesn't give their comments anymore validity, it only adds sorrow to their sentences, nothing more.