What's Weingarten Writing?

We have spent a lot of time taking WaPo’s Gene Weingarten to task. The resident “humorist” has a nasty habit of relying on hackneyed, blah jokes to limp his way through his columns. Little did we know that Gene was a professor of journalism! At least, that’s what he thinks. Gene uses his most recent column to launch a class on a subject near and dear to our hearts: “The News Laws of Writing.”