Pleonastic Ephemera

10.18.2004 posted by William 09:54 link

You heard it here first (unless you read this, which is where I heard it): "[T]he New Yorker has a piece on [ABC News daily political/media digest and Pleonastic Ephemera favorite] The Note which says it is extremely and crucially important, almost as important as Mark Halperin thinks it is. Peter Jennings, Al Gore, George Stephanopoulos, James Carville, Karen Hughes, Teddy White and Tom Edsall make cameo appearances. It is really, really long, which is to say, almost as long as a typical edition of The Note. A mega-must-read for the Googling monkeys." (Astute readers will Note how Note-esque Kurtz's blurb is!) I first found the Note way back in May of 2000 when I was working at NTIS and the forthcoming election was Gore vs. Bush. I was charmed by the chatty, irreverant tone of the writing and by awed by the breadth of the coverage. This was coverage of the media by people intimately involved in the media and they made me feel like I was getting inside dope, which tends to make me giddy like a schoolgirl. It's always a little sad when something you discovered yourself gets launched into the public arena, although it shouldn't necessarily be; as long as the coverage doesn't change, I'll still be happy. And I'll know who's a true Note fan and who's just frontin' because it takes dedication (or a boring office job) to get all the way to the end of a new Note each and every day.