Stribdeath
This entry was posted on 8/28/2006 8:48 AM and is filed under Media.
I hate the Strib. Hate it with the fiery heat of a thousand white hot suns.
Okay, that's too much effort. I ignore it. That's all. I pick out the meaninglessly titled "source" section and don't even read the headlines on the rest of it. Years of experience have convinced me that the entire rag is manned by drooling idiots and who has time for the opinions and reportage of drooling idiots?
You want to know how dumbassed stupid that paper is? They've reduced Lileks to six inches a day. He used to write the funniest comlumn in print and now he can barely get started. Giving him six inches a day is like letting Fred Astaire dance for twelve seconds. That's how stupid this paper is.
Today, while fishing out the source section....
What the hell is up with that, anyway?! It used to be called "Variety" and that's what it is: advice columns, pop culture articles, fashion, the tv and movie listing, the funnies, the bridge column, sudoku and cross word puzzles. Variety. The title explained the section perfectly. Now it's called "Source".
Source of what? Is it the beginning of something? Is it short for "reSource"? The damn title means nothing. This is supposed to be an effing newspaper, it's supposed to make things clear, not obfuscate by calling things not what they are, but by stupid, ambiguous words of smokey definition.
Maybe they've been mispelling it and it's supposed to be "sauce". That would actually make some sense.
Maybe it's supposed to be "sense".
Long and short of it is I'd like to take a rolled up copy of it and beat the people who run the place with it.
Not that four ounces of rolled up newsprint could do much damage. I'm just sayin'.
What was I talking about...?
Oh, yeah. Today I happened to glance at a headline. Something about the head of Hezbollah having second thoughts about his little war with Israel. I didn't read the story. I knew what it would say:
"Blah blah blappity blah blah burppity brap blah blah blah If only George W. Bush could admit to mistakes like Hezbollah's leader!!!"
Because when you're a lefty, that's the quality you want most in your leaders: Doubt, and the ability to second guess yourself.
