Oh, come on now, you didn't actually think I would let this image slip off the front page, did you?
Media Madness: Sharp piece from Michael Tilley about lame, stupid, out-of-touch “Top Ten Stories of 2008” list from the AP. I agree. They don’t even touch on the Tina Sherman nude cell phone photos case, which obsessed me all of Arkansas for weeks. (The City Wire)
Job Hopping: Big jobs announcement in North Little Rock today. It reportedly will have something to do with “mini-trucks,” which I presume to mean those Tonka toys we had when we were kids. Those were awesome. (Arkansas Times)
Brummett Gets Chummy: Columnist John Brummett offers praise to his bureau colleague David Sanders by noting how much he loathes him. A regular Dale Carnegie, this Brummett guy is. (Brummett’s blog)
Update: So it’s been pointed out to me that the link in item #3 goes nowhere, or at least to an Arkansas News Bureau page with no meaningful content. I thought maybe I’d put the wrong link in there, but now I don’t see the Brummett hit piece on Sanders on the site at all. Hm. It’s like it disappeared or something. This leads to only one logical conclusion: The Internet is broken!
But fear not! The Arkansas Project, recognizing that nothing on the web ever need really disappear, has salvaged Brummett’s sneering assessment of his colleague’s work for posterity, and you can read it all below after the jump, because I am, as ever, your go-to guy, baby.
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Update II: So I’m considering a new tagline for The Arkansas Project: “Inappropriate, gratuitous and altogether tacky.” I think it really captures the essence of this blog with a certain concise elegance, don’t you?
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Please note that this is the FIRST version that Brummett posted yesterday, before he went back and softened the criticism, and before it disappeared entirely today, so this is the unfiltered brew. Whew, I thought it had been lost to the sands of time. I’m a hero!:
Collegiality run amok (missing John Brummett blog post, as excavated and curated by The Arkansas Project) Posted on 04 January 2009
To my own extraordinary surprise, I’d like to say a word for the right-wing pundit of our bureau, David Sanders.
I disagree with his every word, his very essence, practically, and, well, am not exactly covered up in personal fondness for him. Or he me, I suspect, and say proudly. But he serves our bureau by giving us reasonably vigorous and topical right-wing viewpoints on state issues.
Let’s face it, at risk to modesty: Brantley and I dominate the Arkansas punditry, me in pragmatic moderation and Max in unyielding liberalism. So somebody needs to represent the pitiable right. Sanders consistently is more relevant and interesting than, say, the right-wing columnists in the Little Rock daily.
Faint praise? I guess so. But read those guys today. Well, start out to read them. I wouldn’t ask anyone to make it all the way through. It’ll make you appreciate Sanders. Well, appreciate is probably the wrong word. Rendered less ill by him — how about that?
Plus: Sanders’ AETN show called Unconventional Wisdom, which I was once on enjoyably, is not nearly as bad at sounds like it would be.
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