April 27, 2003
A FINE IDEA from Mark
A FINE IDEA from Mark Steyn:
John Pilger can keep boring on about Vietnam until he's driven away every last Mirror reader, but to any sentient columnist the analogy is irrelevant: indeed, a canny newspaper would design a software programme that crashed a columnist's computer every time he typed in the word.
Of course, some columnists will require crash-words tailored to their specific needs:
Maureen Dowd: Alpha
Phillip Adams: John Howard
Hugh Mackay: Values
Adele Horin: Children
Peter Roebuck: Hamlet
Mike Carlton: Me, myself, I
Margo Kingston: Core values
Robert Manne: Let me explain
UPDATE: The Observer has obviously put Steyn's idea into practice. This US-bashing Terry Jones column contains not one single mention of oil - unlike most earlier Jones pieces. Now if they could just install software to make the lame bastard funny ...
Posted by Tim Blair at April 27, 2003 03:57 PM