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

Posted 8:09 AM by Gene

SAVE THE TREES! On the train to work I sat next to a copy of the StinkyInky. Natch it was missing the sports section. On days like these the bankrupt fools should run a one-section sheaf. Such behavior must be common. It proves the hundred The Paper of Re-CORD is firing will not be missed except by some of their colleagues. Yesterday an NRO blogger called the news orgs "machines for regurgitating press releases". Why must trees die for press releases? Going back with the Wiki amateurs over our StinkyInky's history I learned it's gone broke possibly twice. Or as some anonymous typist typed:

A thirty-eight day strike in 1958 hurt The Inquirer and, after the strike ended, so many reporters had accepted buyout offers and left that the newsroom was noticeably empty. Furthermore, many current reporters had been copyclerks just before the strike and had little experience. One of the few star reporters of the 1950s and 60s was investigative reporter Harry Karafin. During his career Harry Karafin exposed corruption and other exclusive stories for The Inquirer, but also extorted money out of individuals and organizations. Karafin would claim he had harmful information and would demand money in exchange for the information not being made public. This went on from the late 1950s into the early 60s before Karafin was exposed in 1967 and convicted of extortion a year later.

Eight years later it started winning P-Ulitzers for political insider baseball and saving the snail darter. The StinkyInky's history should teach us that these rags can come back anew, greater pestilences than ever, but so many of the props are gone from under these profit-churning devices you wonder how they can stand. They will, unfortunately.