Posted
3:33 PM
by Gene
In what should be an ENDURING MONUMENT to the UTTERLY SENSELESS SENSIBILITY of NEWS HACKS, tomorrow's (or rather today-tomorrow's)
InkyDinkyDooDoo runs a sports story with a hed whose size is worthy of the death of a prominent local figure, or perhaps a multiple murder --
T.O.'s Agent is Mostly Talk-- DIRECTLY ABOVE
a PLUG,
FLOGGED ABOVE THE FRONT-PAGE MASTHEAD, for
our star multimillionaire sports scribbler and attitudinizer (and, if he's lucky, our next
KEYBOARD THROWER) and
his new soapbox on ESPN2. [It must be GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD when
THE PAPER OF RE-CORD ENDORSES IT.) We've no doubt the hacks in
THE TOWER OF BABBLE think "juxtaposition" is a word
TONY RIDDER uses to justify LAYOFFS, and we've equally no doubt that if T. O.'S AGENT IS MOSTLY TALK, NEWS HACKS ARE ALL TALK -- and often SOMETHING WORSE THAN IT.
P. S. Did MICKEYMOUSE BOB hire that dishwater OM-BUDS-MAN because he knew he'd be buying a new SOAPBOX? (By the way, ombuddy's written ONE column SINCE JOINING THEM.)