Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Friday, October 17, 2003


I must confess that all the malarkey about this sudden blossoming of baseball "genius" has gotten on my nerves too. This is why the news biz has become intolerable: tens of thousands of six- and seven-digit hacks ooh and aah at the brilliant raiment of the emperor of the moment -- and there's not one brave little boy or girl to say he's wearing no clothes! That's why I still feel the loss of Mike Royko keenly, and why I was upset when Mike Kelly needlessly died. And here is why bloggers can only lose against the scribblers' onslaught: we only talk to ourselves. News hacks talk to themselves millions at a time.

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