Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Friday, September 08, 2006


Part of us hopes the news biz would go full bore for a P-Ulitzer-winning defeat in Iraq. But there are two problems here. First, when we got out of Vietnam, we merely thought we were getting out of a quagmire. Few foresaw the catastrophe in DEMOCRATIC KAMPUCHEA. Only the malevolent hacks would like what they saw if we got outoutOUT today. Second, BIGMEDIA was still in a heady growth phase in the seventies, with the monumental gouging of cable well in the future. Today, it's in a funk, but especially the news biz, with untold thousands of firings, and still more to come. If the hacks want to do their Jaws routine, that is fine with us, but they should not be surprised (as surprised these credulous hacks would be) if the business's downturn accelerates and people complain more loudly about their "reporting."

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