Too easy
I don’t mean to bash the Times-Pic. Really, I don’t. But when they lob an easy one in the air, somebody oughta take a swing.
Case in point: on the front page of today’s Picayune there’s a story about a report issued Friday morning by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This is major stuff, people. You know how David Rakoff’s essays can make you laugh out loud? Well, this is the opposite of that. This is holy-crap stuff–holy-crap stuff, I might add, of significant importance to New Orleanians.
Now flip over a few pages for the editorials. There are three: one on judge Martha Sassone (okay, sure, that’s local); one on NASA’s Inspector General (okay, maybe, since there is a NASA facility in the area, although the editorial has nothing to do with that); and finally, this:
The White House’s annual State Egg Display ought to be above controversy: The Easter tradition, sponsored by the American Egg Board, is an occasion for state pride as well as product promotion.
But this year, a scandal has hatched. Each egg is supposed to be decorated by an artist from the state it represents. The Wyoming egg, however, turns out to be the work of a college student from Illinois.
The blow to state pride is bad enough, but the egg in question does nothing to further the cause of egg artistry. It features a clumsily rendered egg on skis. Maybe that’s because the creator wasn’t chosen for artistic ability but for family connections. His mother works for the American Egg Board.
I’m sorry, what was that? An egg-decorating contest? With a teeny-tiny scandal attached to it? In WYOMING?
Why would anyone at the Picayune write/care about that crap? And perhaps more importantly, what kind of obscure, offbeat, ovo-centric news feeds do the editors subscribe to that would alert them to such a story? I mean, it’s not even a story in the first place. That shit doesn’t rate a press release, and it certainly doesn’t deserve to be picked up, even on the slowest news day.
My theory is that the Picayune is secretly run by a cabal of egg industry lobbyists. That, or they’re all just a bunch of fucktards.
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They’re doing better today. The Times-Pic is running a picture of Dead Eddie Robinson in his casket.
Sigh.
So let me get this straight because I am quite confused…. I have been reading your blog occasionally since Katrina, and have run across plenty of bitching and moaning about what ISNT being done. So now, when something besides inaction comes along, you and your neighbors want to shoot it down? I agree the recovery in the city is moving at a slow pace, and that more needs to be done, but come on! It seems that you are like many in this city, and the second something gets even close to happening it just “sucks” or you say, “I want change…but not in my neighborhood.” Listen peope, we are going to scare off developers if they can’t even get a damn retail space in a vacant piece of crap lot. There are plenty of other places where they can make there money. So stop impeding any effort to rebuild, renew, and turn the city around and LET THEM BUILD!
The Times-Picayune is a joke of a paper. I watched a friend struggle to read an article about the Saints a couple of weeks ago and couldn’t help but laught at his exclamations of “why did they insert a new paragraph in the middle of a sentence?” and “this sentence has no noun!”