Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Tuesday, July 22, 2003


"If you just want to read crap, you can get on the internet and read the most outrageous stuff," Liz Smith, the industry's 80-year-old grande dame, says dryly. "Restraint has been thrown overboard . . . The line between what's legitimate news and soft news has blurred enormously."

The problem with you, Liz, is you're not a gossip columnist. You're a PUBLICIST. And as you publicists have proven, we don't need "the Internet" (whatever that is) for "the most outrageous stuff." We have enough Devins and "Seller" Seilers and ADVERTISEMENTS and Ednas in print serving up "crap." And their restraint's gone overboard too. What's more, they're "legit."


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