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This successfully gets my goat
Feb. 26th, 2002 09:26 amFrom an AP story on Aaron Sorkin criticizing GWB:
Drugs do not factor in any other part of the story -- at some point someone just decided to drop in this fact about the guy. It sounds like the writer pauses to lean in confidentially to say with a wink, "Oh, by the way, he's a convicted druggie, and, well, you know how they get." It reminds me about how we'd joke about adding the clause "noted Communist" after people's names, at the Campus. But it was a joke! Argh!
I feel this cuts both ways, by the way: I got steamed at the Globe when, covering some decision that pre-911 GWB was making, snuck in a reminder of his death-penalty record as governor, when the story's topic had nothing to do wiith capital punishment. Jeepers creepers.
Sorkin, who was allowed to enter a drug treatment program last year instead of serving prison time for possession of cocaine and hallucinogenic mushrooms, said in the magazine that he believed Bush was handling the current crisis well and that "it's absolutely right that at this time we're all laying off the bubblehead jokes."
Drugs do not factor in any other part of the story -- at some point someone just decided to drop in this fact about the guy. It sounds like the writer pauses to lean in confidentially to say with a wink, "Oh, by the way, he's a convicted druggie, and, well, you know how they get." It reminds me about how we'd joke about adding the clause "noted Communist" after people's names, at the Campus. But it was a joke! Argh!
I feel this cuts both ways, by the way: I got steamed at the Globe when, covering some decision that pre-911 GWB was making, snuck in a reminder of his death-penalty record as governor, when the story's topic had nothing to do wiith capital punishment. Jeepers creepers.