Reply #38: and like anyone using "company computers" you have to be sly

[nashville_brook]

in what you say.

it's like we are already in the dark ages where the truth can only be told in rhyme or tarot cards.

and what she said about the DEMs not taking up the issue, as if there isn't a story unless there's personalities to populate the narrative. if it doesn't have the "he-said-she-said" component, they might have to take responsibility for the content.

15 years ago, i ran a small paper in east tennessee, a benefactor came to me to complain about coverage of a nimby garbage dump piece -- that the local press was only covering the IDENTITIES in play. i was confused -- he wouldn't say any more. i thought he was talking about "identity politics" -- pomo stuff -- but he wasn't. took me years to for the light to finally go on -- focusing on the people as if they are celebrities obfuscates the story. period. it's that simple.