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[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Hey, at least I admit I have a calling. I belong in some sort of commentator's job, writing some pseudo-fictionalized rants on current affairs.

The shit they allow to publish in the papers is fucking embarrassing. Maureen Dowd writes the same crap article week in, week out:

1. Analogize Bush to some clever pop culture figure or character in recent novel/tv show;

2. Throw in a few jokes about how W's been fucking up just like the charcter to whom he's analogised; and

3. Wind up the "arc" of the story by showing how W's present mess is exactly like the recent ending of that tv show/book.

The "arc" is what sophomore writing teachers tell the kids they need to use in every article. Its as hackneyed and predictable as the surprise ending. Granted, most people like it, because it "ties up all the loose ends." Spoonfeeding is what it is. Its a cheap construction popular because readers want easily digestible pap they don't have to think about to understand or be amused by.

I use Dowd as an example - just about every present journalist favors that same tired construction. And I'm sick of reading it.

Translation:

• it was aight, it was aight,
  yunumsayin, that shit was aight, it was cool. But my shit is
  more John Blaze than that! I got John Blaze shit. And they not
  recognizing, they not sayin I recognize.