NOT IN JEST

That part.

Like the title of the the post says…

The D&C editorial board wilts under the Truth.

Just to be perfectly clear, this is a scan of what was printed in the dead-tree newspaper. Click for the full article.

Permit me to have a little fun here (actually neweyes you are probably correct I missed it. Here are some quick links I found. here and here)

So - if I’m the D&C editorial board - I say - Well neweyes, it was really a vague reference/pun to refer to one falling in line - “being towed” like pulled along - like sting of packet boats on the Erie canal - or being led like sheep, through a chicken coop where egg gets on the D&C Ed board’s face.

Neweyes simply says (as does everyone else reading this) WTF which means, because we would not want to contribute to a coursening of the culture, “What the gosh darn”.

Now it is time to blame Bill Gates and spell check (the mind reading function in spell check is disabled).

If that doesn’t work I find a way to shoot the messenger (sorry neweyes the comments section isn’t big enough for both of us) .

All the while hoping this comment scrolls off the page into the same obvilion as the D&C article archives.

Which of course is one of the differences between the MSM and Blogs - Blogs are living breathing interactice experience. Newspapers - well they are printed on dead trees.

For what it’s worth, google returns this:
http://www.grammartips.homestead.com/toetheline.html

Itchy: We are going to see a gradual decline in the D&C. It will be sad to watch, but I hope that other media will take up the slack. People without computers and Internet connections will slowly be marginalized.

Would someone please correct me if necessary? I always thought that the expression was “toe the line,” as in a line on the ground, which one puts one’s toes on right after the drill sargeant bites your head off. It seems to have morphed, like duck/duct tape, into an apparently naval expression, as in a “tow line.” In which case, one wouldn’t be towing the line, but using the line to tow something else, like a dinghy. As in, “towing the dinghy,” which makes more sense than “towing the line” — in contrast, “toeing the line” always made more sense to me, and I thought was correct — so to speak.

The D&C and the rest of the MSM sees the news related blogs or at a threat. Something to be controlled or marginalized as opposed to what they really are part of a symbionic relationship. If the media actually was critical of the keepers of power or actually reported the news - political blogs might look entirely different.

The D&C etc attitude of “worse you look better we look” fits a marginalization strategy. Part of what I hope to discuss later.

Nevertheless - in the this case the Lawrence and Tobin are backpeddling so fast that they are tripping over themselves.