Hello… It’s Called FILLER!
You know, the little items that aren’t really news
- Mr. Carruthers’ dog peed on Mrs. Ellsworth’s peonies again
- That traffic light at Cheswick and 3rd still doesn’t work
- Mayor O’Reilly is using the city credit card at the massage parlor
Things which surprise no one and recur so often that nobody thinks anything about it when they happen. Again. They are used to fill up space at the bottoms of newspaper columns so everything ends up even. Hence, filler.
So this Roll Call article is puzzling. It’s not unusual. It’s not startling. It’s certainly not (the favorite word lately; have you noticed?) stunning. It’s about the Democrats trying to put the deficit even farther out of reach. It’s a nothing story. Just like
- Aunt Maude came from the beauty parlor today and her hair is blue
- Timmy put his tooth under his pillow and the Tooth Fairy left him a dollar
- The Peterson’s had their weekly fight which ended with Mr. Peterson punching another hole in the dry-wall
- The Democrats are trying to destroy the economy so they can take over everything on the grounds that they’re responding to an emergency
Silly, isn’t it. Reporting Old Hat like it was news.
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