Posted 6:41 AM by Gene

NEWS HACKS HUG THEMSELVES AGAIN: We forget that William Cullen Bryant edited what is now THE NEW YORK POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We also forget that Emily Dickinson's poetry first appeared in newspapers. With lines like

Tell me what it's like. Make me fall in love
with the dirtball murder in Kensington, the wasted life
of the 16-year-old crack-dealing honor student
who might have been a star for U.C.L.A., the priest
who tried to save him, the boy's chalk silhouette
fading on the rainy street, the killer who shot him
because he wanted his shoes and loved nothing in this life
but the crazed Rottweiler he kept on a silver leash.

we are apt further to forget.