This is another one of those headlines:

Meteorite Hits Cambodia, Sparks Fires, Prayers

I imagine the lead up to the writing of this article went something like this:

EXT. REUTER'S HEADQUARTERS, JEW YORK CITY, AMERIKKKA
The featureless office tower seems impossibly tall, and is cloaked entirely in shadow.

INT. REUTER'S EDITORIAL BOARDROOM
Steel sodium lamps light a vast white space. Black and white PHOTOGRAPHS of indigent peoples are pinned to the walls -- a homeless legless man on the dirty streets of Delhi, a pregnant woman tilling dust in Kenya. One, of a 4-year-old African girl whose belly is bloated from hunger, has a DART in it.

MAPS of third world countries are spread across a huge table, and Cambodia is on the top. SIX MEN in khaki TRENCHCOATS and FEDORAS into the brims of which a PRESS BADGE has been tucked surround the map. They all chew on the STUBS OF CIGARS.

REPORTER ONE:
"I don't want anymore mamby pamby bullshit out of you fucking whores! We need to make these people seem like infantile man-children!"

REPORTER THREE:
"What about this..."

He raises his hands into the air as if laying out the headline on the page.

"...'SILVER BIRD' INSPIRES WORSHIP, FEAR AMONG CAMBODIANS"

REPORTER SIX:
"That's pretty good. Pretty fucking good."

REPORTER FOUR:
"I like where you're going, but the airplane thing is done."

REPORTER TWO:
"What about this meteor thing? With that, we get the we're happy it didn't hit us angle and the those silly uneducated fools angle...."

REPORTER FIVE:
Gloating and superiority. Nice.

REPORTER ONE:
"METEOR HITS CAMBODIA, SPARKS FIRES, PRAYERS"

REPORTER THREE:
Perfect. Go with it.

With that, he throws a DART into a picture of rows of STACKED BODIES overlooked by a KHMER ROUGE FIGHTER.

Analogcabin @ 10:35 AM
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