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Tuesday, February 10, 2004 |
Blog break
As Scrooge once said, sort of, "It was a hiatus, nothing more." The only remotely Dickensian pause was occasioned by a trip from one coast to another to visit friends in George W. Bush's adopted hometown.
4:36:49 PM 
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All the news, etc.
On February 10, 1897, The New York Times adopted its new slogan: "All the News That's Fit to Print," thus launching 107 years of ever-intensifying nitpicking by everyone who doesn't toil for the Times. A relatively old example: Lies of Our Times; shockingly, it's a print publication. And a much newer one: the Wilgoren Watch; it's dedicated to the pursuit of sloppiness and half-truths committed to print by the Times reporter covering the Howard Dean fiasco.
4:25:49 PM
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© Copyright 2004 Dan Brekke.
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