the Stein line between stupid and clever
Of course, Joel Stein’s “I don’t support our troops, and also, I am very very very witty” LAT Opinion piece is getting lots of attention, complete with an Editor & Publisher piece, an entirely predictable Hugh Hewitt interview, and scads of frothing bloggerel from across the ideological spectrum.
Mostly, the interesting meta-media point is missed by all this coverage, and the interesting point is this: why would anyone want to read an Opinion piece about perhaps the most serious issue facing our society that’s written with the same glib one-liney tone that the author typically uses for pieces about, for instance, already-stale
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