4.06.2006
other hands, other jars
It's okay to be rather tickled by the idea of the Department of Homeland Security's deputy press secretary being charged with seducing a minor over the Internet--after all, the "14-year-old girl" turned out to be a Polk County, Fla., detective. (Don't these guys read the New Yorker?) But here's a little puzzle: today's New York Times, in reporting on the case against Brian J. Doyle, mentions in passing that "From 1975 to 2001, he worked on the Washington news desk for Time magazine."
So is this what a quarter century at a newsweekly can do to a person? Just askin'....
So is this what a quarter century at a newsweekly can do to a person? Just askin'....
