Matt Taibbi's Future Television Network

July 19, 2003 4:48 PM

"Taibbi launched the Guillotine Channel. For the premiere, Taibbi assigned ten crack Russian mobster employees to arrest Fox News chief Roger Ailes, drive him to the TGC studios in Burbank and, using a restored 18th-century French guillotine, chop off his head on live television. The privilege of releasing the rope was awarded to an Hispanic single mother in Los Angeles, whose application was chosen via a televised lottery..."
posted by GriffX (4 comments total)

It's almost Swiftian in it's outlandish approach.
posted by stevis at 5:19 PM on July 19, 2003

journalism? or art! literature even :D
posted by kliuless at 5:57 PM on July 19, 2003

How do I sign up for this lottery?
posted by geneablogy at 8:38 PM on July 19, 2003

I love it. I love it!
posted by SpecialK at 9:19 PM on July 19, 2003