Living alone, I like some noise in the house, so I have the TV on. And set to Fox news. Around lunchtime every day they carry the president's news conference, Sean Spicer, press secretary, presiding, live. For an hour or more. Spicer is fairly good, he is seldom at a loss for words, he is glib, he forth rightly defends the administration. He even occasionally says "Gee I don't know, can I get back to you?"
The newsies are less impressive. Their questions are mostly worthless, of the "what does so-and-so think about thus and such?" sort. I don't care much about what people think, I want to know what happened. What, Where, When, Who, and Why are news questions, the five big W's. What someone thinks ain't news, it's gossip. And the newsies all wear big "Lefty Greenie" buttons on their lapels. I think less of newsies who announce which side they have taken. Makes me doubt their impartiality and their honesty.
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