Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Friday, August 04, 2006


And here's another reason the news biz is in trouble -- we read shorthand. When we see, ISRAELI AIR RAIDS KILL 40 CIVILIANS IN LEBANON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, we know what it means. We do not need a highly paid army of correspondents and analysts and pundits to tell us what it means. We know what it means because we've been taught the meaning for decades. If newspapers printed on an 8-1/2x11 sheet, and the nightly news were limited to five seconds, we would still know what it means. In short, our trust in the press is equally microscopic. That is not good news for the hacks -- or for those who wish to stay well-informed, like US.

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