Who the hell cares?
Yes, it's time for another installment in the expanding file about media stories marked "Who the hell cares?".
In this case, the story - here's an extended discussion of it - that David Paterson supposedly
described Mayor Bloomberg in private as a volatile, Spitzerian, untrustworthy, out-of-touch, self-destructive billionaire bully.
Even if true, who. The. Hell. Cares?
Seriously?
This is the kind of media circus that prompts voters to despair. It's not as if there's a war on, and maybe the economy isn't really collapsing, maybe we don't have over 4,000 dead Americans (and dead Iraqis in their thousands, but we don't even count them), a President who broke the laws of the land with impunity, global warming, 4,000 kids in Brooklyn who don't even know whether or where they'll be going to school next year, the list goes on.
Against that backdrop, the attention paid to what one politician may have privately said about another is not really all that important. I'd respectfully submit to my colleagues in the journalism profession, and their editors, that the reason people think so little of your profession is precisely this kind of high-school gossip dressed up as a matter of consequence.
And don't even get me started on 'Spitzerian'. Let it go, folks.
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Mainstream Media | New York | David Paterson | Michael Bloomberg
Just in case you wanted, by the way, to count the number of
Submitted by Daniel Millstone on 18 June 2008 - 3:22pm.
Iraqi bodies reported, try Iraq Body Count where they have counted between 84,663 – 92,354 bodies (depending on which you count) of dead Iraqis. Statistical projections suggest the actual number will turn out to be much larger.
But Bouldin, he may have
But Bouldin, he may have privately vented his frustration with Bloomberg by calling him a few bad names. You don't think that's news on a par with Iraq?