Today's NYT column by Frank Bruni is called "Full Screed Ahead". Here's an excerpt:
Grandstanding is booming as traditional news gathering struggles to survive: It’s more easily summoned, more cheaply produced. It doesn’t require opening bureaus around the country or picking up correspondents’ travel expenses or paying them for weeks on end just to dig. So it fills publications, websites and television airtime the way noodles stretch out a casserole, until we’re looking at a media meal that’s almost all Hamburger Helper and no beef.
I
often try to provide a Bruni link on Sundays since it lies behind the
Times paywall (which you hit if you visit the NYT "too often"). Links
from blogs will always get through. So what are you waiting for? Grab a
cuppa coffee and go read it.
