Posted 6:21 PM by Gene

Not long ago Mr. Bleat (or one of PROF's other co-productions) sighed with relief that QUAGMIRE!!!!! marks the last hurrah for the Woodstock set in the luxury news suites. Yeah. To be followed, I fear, by worse -- much worse. Soon GENS X and Y will be leading the truth-telling charge, with their lack of literacy and their complete disdain for excellence in the arts, and we could have doozies of gimmicks before long in the papers, things like graphical news stories (based on graphical novels -- you know, 400-page comic books) and graffiti-mural stories, and news raps, and pop stars as columnists (almost wholly ghosted); and what's more the current old fogies will probably choose people with POLITICAL experience, and with GENS X and Y that can only mean one thing: the ANARCHIST movement. (Sort of the Woodstock Generation's reflection in the mirror, n'est-ce pas?) After all, the HACKS have decided with so many scandals coloring their past they have no moral ground to stand on, so they can piddle wherever they please. News as a circulation gimmick can only follow.