Big media’s sad and extremely horrible week
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times - Monday, December 11, 2017
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Newspapermen were rarely whiners. Whining became fashionable only after “journalists†overran newsrooms. The best newspapermen, so the folk wisdom went, were Southerners, Jews and the Irish.
Southerners loved the words and the occasions to tell stories, the Jews for the opportunity to do public good, and the Irish for the bottle frequently slipped into the bottom desk drawer by boosters, lobbyists, public-relations flacks and others up to no particular good.
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