And Sunday’s thumbsucking journalist award goes to…
(May I have the envelope, pleases?)…. the ever-popular “Tedious Tim” Rutten of the Los Angeles Times for his mind-numbing work in the deeply-furrowed field of “It’s like Vietnam! No, it isn’t!”
The problem with hot-button issues these days is that by the time everybody, but everybody, on the web has staked out their position on the matter, the newspapers still have to run their Sunday editions. Just when you thought it was safe to go on to something fresh, the hapless scribes of yesterday’s papers trot out their “deep thoughts.”
Tim (”I’m writing as bad as I can.”) Rutten lumbers in this morning by going meta on the whole deal and reminding us, once again, that old media and new media… (wait for it)… “complement each other:”
“This new world in which online and print commentary complement each other already is deepening our civic conversation in ways that clearly matter. Will it help us move from cacophony to consensus? In a democracy, is that ever attainable — or even desirable? “– Vietnam war still draws fire
“New world… online and print… deepening our civic conversation… from cacophony to consensus… attainable… desirable….” Zzzzzzzzzzzzz……
The best thing about that paragraph is that it comes at the end of this week’s blandest rehash of this week’s plat du jour for political junkies. That way most normal people have more than an ample chance to simply doze off.
Topics: media
Posted by Gerard Van der Leun at 1:50 pm on Sunday, August 26, 2007
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August 26th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
Bless his heart. Trying to be all cool and in the know like that.
August 26th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
Well good. I can always use more sleep.