Old Fartosphere
Dear friend Michael, whose status as 'dear friend' is actually on hold until he posts a comment here, has sent me a link that I'm sure he thinks speaks for himself as well. Joseph Epstein complains that he hasn't got enough mental RAM to take on the Blogosphere. In reply, I say simply, Turn off the TV! (And GQ requires no RAM). This link will fail in seven days, so hurry up and sniff the latest Old Fart while it's still fresh.
Who's going to claim that he attended the première of Rodelinda at the Met last night, even though he left at the interval? Names will be named!
Comments
Well, Joseph Epstein does work for the WSJ... No offense to the readers of the WSJ (Kathleen, in particular), but even the newspaper world considers WSJ to be on another realm and they don't expect them to necessarily be cultural arbiters.
But this is an interesting thought. I asked my friend Natalie Pompilio who is a staff writer at the Philly Inquirer what she thought were the best papers in the country (I'm reading Katharine Graham's "Personal History," which prompted this thread) and despite being one of the biggest newspaper junkies that I know, she didn't even mention the WSJ. why is this?
Posted by: Lauren | December 3, 2004 10:32 AM
The WSJ lost a great deal of credibility when they couldn't believe Clinton beat Bush the Elder and went into overdrive about how unfit he was. The low-point of their journalism was when they were shilling their "investigative" reports on Whitewater on the editorial page!
It was once a respected business paper.
Posted by: PPOQ | December 3, 2004 06:36 PM