News Journal Doesn’t Understand the Space-Time Continium.
Read this sentence from the Delaware Dialogue column in the News Journal this morning concerning Christine O’Donnell’s announcement that she is running yet again for the Senate in 2010:
O’Donnell made a failed attempt to run against Biden last November and tried again in 2006.
The way that sentence reads, it sounds like O’Donnell ran against Biden last year, lost, and then went back in time to 2006 to run against Carper, and failed again.
This makes O’Donnell a much more superb candidate for the GOP than perennial candidate Mike Protack, for while Protack is a pilot, he has yet to master time travel.
Not so – his moustache has travelled from the 1970s.
It is not always clear to me that the News Journal understands that they are in Delaware, but less that they can place themselves in time.
OTOH — given that vanity candidates like O’Donnell and Protack run at the drop of a hat and then tend their media profiles in between, you can sort of understand how one might be able to distinguish one political year from another.
Breaking news:
Mike Matthews will now be diverting all donations made to his weight loss campaign towards the purchase of a DeLorean on Ebay.
They have been making a number of mistakes recently that I am starting to attribute to the layoffs. Be kind, people.
hero worship – it’s layoffs + furloughs right now. everyone left is working twice as hard (ok, mostly everyone) to put out the same product.
The mistakes are piling up. They are unable to effectively cover Delaware with the staff still remaining. The web site sucks (not just the design, which is a Gannett thing). The same stories might be posted under updated news for 3 or 4 days. The paper is a shell of its former self.
And yet they continue to pay a wine columnist to write weekly junk, run vapid opinion columns from Rhonda Graham that say absolutely nothing, have someone writing full-time about bars and drunkenness, and pay freelance photographers after laying off full-timers.
I hadn’t heard about a full-time photographer going. My favorites still seem to be on board.
Two were laid off in December – Carla Varisco Williams and Scott Nathan.
My favorites remaining are Bretzger, Comegys, and Emeigh.
have someone writing full-time about bars and drunkenness,
In the summer I’m sure their single copy sales go up, because the Corimier stuff is like a society page for skanks and tools.
“and pay freelance photographers after laying off full-timers.”
You say this as if it weren’t a legitimate way to cut costs. It’s much cheaper to pay by the photo — and by the story, too, for that matter.