Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Monday, March 07, 2005




CHRISTOPHER BYRON:

[N]early every major media outlet in America has thus far proclaimed Stewart a "transformed" person from her five months in prison, while citing no actual evidence of that transformation since no such evidence exists.

Instead, we have the journalistic equivalent of a card trick. In it, the media have fastened on to the most hopeful and marketable transformation the Stewart woman "might" have undergone, followed sui sponte by the declaration that she actually underwent it and that we now behold the result — a new, improved, and "softer" Martha Stewart.

This amounts to some of the weakest and most transparently one-sided business reporting the American media has produced since Fortune magazine broke out the pom-poms for Enron Corp. as "America's Most Innovative Company" in the 1990s. Now, in spite of all the navel-gazing that has followed the collapse of media darlings like HealthSouth and Worldcom, with the most over-the-top reportorial cheerleading yet.


Card trick? ROYAL FLUSH!!!!!

P. S. He forgot "No. 1 in Quality of Management" and "No. 2 in Employee Talent"!!!!!

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