Posted 4:23 PM by Gene

Our distrust of the business hacks goes back long before they helped conspire in nearly destroying our economy with their fairy tales. That they continue to stink out the joint may be seen from the way they've "covered" Hef's business masterstroke. How does He intend to make money? With licensing? With PR0N? Who wants to read a rag frozen in 1955 (or, to be charitable, 1975)? How can a company with such dubious revenue streams pay off its debt? Yet the Emperor's courtiers kept oohing and aahing His raiment, and as with too much the hacks type, the truth will emerge without their copious help, with luck in a well-earned bankruptcy filing.

That's what gets me about news hacks: their blazing exaggeration, their urge to treat their heroes like a cure for cancer, and their villains like the bubonic plague.