Posted
9:44 AM
by Gene
Odd that these two things appear on ST. WARREN's paper's home page:
Poll: Obama Up by 10 Points
A Deserved Dose of HumilityThat deserved dose of humility is for losing a football game. We can't imagine any hack applying such a hed anywhere else. We've seen enough public clowns in our lives who deserved humility and never got the demand for it from news hacks like the Redskins.
And of course news hacks deserve no humility for constantly trying to win elections for their candidates by pounding the table with their subtly rigged public-opinion polls. The continuing economic crisis in their business brings them no humility. The thought of their co-workers being escorted from the news suites by security guards brings no humility. They themselves could lose their jobs and it would bring no humility. The news business is perfection, even as the one perfection it successfully strives for is its work forces and stock prices approaching zero.