Only goats matter

For Halloween, let’s close out the month with BuzzFeed’s take on how the media will report the apocalypse. On the whole, I think they’ve rather holed it in one.

They certainly got the zeitgeist of Twitter right. (Especially that #prayforLondon thing.)

Someone wondered why the Statue of Liberty always seems to figure in apocalyptic visions, which caused me to run through the images again to investigate.

In fairness, it’s only the faux-New York Times that uses that particular icon. And you’d pretty much expect the editors there to conflate Liberty rising from the ruins with the destruction of civilization as anyone worth his fair-trade espresso defines it.

Or else people are just fixated on The Planet of the Apes.

However, I got the biggest charge out of modern farmer’s headline. Because, in the end…