Wednesday, April 21, 2010

NZ Herald Online Editor Paul Smith Admits to Being Editor in Absentia

Insists on meeting ‘PM’Helen Clark.

In a shocking revelation which is bound to send ripples of shock and disbelief throughout the media industry, the online editor for New Zealand’s largest newspaper company, NZ Herald has publicly acknowledged in a news conference that he was not on planet Earth for the last 4 years.

According to Mr. Paul Smith, the Online Editor of NZ Herald, he was living on the International Space Station and only returned to Earth last night on the space shuttle, Discovery.

“It was a top secret mission and I cannot disclose anything further apart from the fact that I was part of an elite squad recruited to report that aliens do exist and I can confidently say that I have seen them,” Mr. Smith told a skeptical group of reporters at the news conference.

The announcement by Paul Smith however did manage to convince some of the skeptics who were present at the news conference.

“Well he might be telling us the truth. I don’t think we saw him in person in the last 4 years. Come to think of it, most of the stories and photos published under his editorship were 4 years old, especially the photos,” a reporter from the TVNZ blabbed.

The media shy Paul Smith was forced to call the press conference after controversy arouse when all his editorials carried the photo of Fiji coup leader that was atleast 4 years old.

However according to a close friend of Mr. Smith, it maybe more bad than what is visible.

“This is just the tip of the ice berg. My dude Paul asked me to arrange a meeting with Prime Minister Helen Clark. I don’t know how to tell him that she is gone and we have a new PM. The worse was when he saw the new photos of Frank Bainimarama and he was like, who is this good looking handsome?,” the friend revealed.

In other news, the pest control company Rentokil has declared a war on the destructive species of termite found in Lautoka and said that the balls in its court and its upto the termites on how it wants to deal with their exterminators.

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