Great Moments in Journalism: Who Only Eats Half a Burger?
Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. Okay, end of the week, poll up later. Today's Moment comes from Salon, and proves that, no matter what you think of the Administration, no one should be the subject of an article that begins thusly:
As someone who's an old friend of Scooter Libby's and at the same time a frustrated critic of the Bush administration, I find I can see Scooter's trial in just one way. What we are witnessing here again is an old drama of ambitious innocence foundering in and probably drowned by a world much more wicked than it ever knew. To be sure, Shakespeare would not have penned a plot that hinges on the hero's claim that he simply "forgot." But this is an American tragedy, after all. The backdrop here is not the steeps of Mount Parnassus or the gorges below Delphi. It's the Washington Beltway, clogged with SUVs and littered with half-eaten Whoppers and Big Macs.
Yeah, long week all around.
