Would it be rational to expect the Huffington Post to hire an Internets loose cannon (let alone Fox) or would it be more realistic to expect that only those who subscribe fully to the "ya gottta go along to get along" style of expressing opinions are acceptable to management as members of the team?
We picked up a bargain copy of Joseph E. Persico's biography of Edward R. Murrow recently and were reminded of just how much time devoted to dealing with office politics was necessary at the time that he was reporting live from London during the Battle of Britain.
When Ernie Pyle showed up in England in December of 1940 to cover the effect that the Battle of Britain was having on the ordinary citizens, he stayed in a posh hotel and was not bothered by the riggers of rationing.
Did anyone hire Woody Guthrie to go to London to report on the effect on workers that the Battle of Britain was causing?
The dog days of summer draw neigh and so the next few weeks may be a very opportune time for a columnist to begin a whimsical attempt to find amusing and amazing feature material while the Supreme Court Justices do some relaxing and start to select the next batch of cases needing their attention.
Horace wrote: "The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from is firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance."
Now the disk jockey will play "Here Come da Judge," "Strange fruit," and Waylon Jennings' "WRONG!," We have to go look for a time travel machine. Have a "Great Caesars' Ghost!" type week.
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