Eugene David<br>...The One-Minute Pundit

Posted 5:45 PM by Gene

And with the same anger in our head, we wonder how much IDIOTIC TYPING LIKE THIS gums up the news works. Indeed we wonder how much of an unalloyed marvel the Web is when we trip and fall over it. Consider: in the old days the news was controlled by the much-maligned GATEKEEPERS. While it's true they were mostly effete snobs and HYPERLIBERALS, they performed a valuable function by keeping falsehoods and trivia out, however imperfectly. Now (as EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEW! never stops telling us) everyone is his own editor. But where do America's millions of editors get their news? Increasingly from two wire services and a handful of MMMMMMMMMMSSSSSSSSSSMMMMMMMMMM sites -- and judging from the ROT they've run lately they've given up their own gatekeeping functions, turning themselves in huge dumpsters collecting and disgorging tons of junk. The news search is increasingly a wild goose chase, and we waste too much of our valuable time having to wade hip deep through the junk in the chase, and it will only pile up deeper, and smell stinkier.