Hie Thee to a Nunnery

Certainly there are media figureheads more worthy of ire than Dowd; plenty of them!  And as the advertising dollars continue to disappear a lot of them will simply disappear. I live for the day when the stockholders of the Mad Media Megasaurous Murdoch realize that he left his New Clothes on the closet floor and abandon him to his fate. In the meantime there is Maureen!

I have read Maureen Dowd’s column less and less as the Bush years wended their way down to the sea. Most of her carping approach to commentary has left me cold even when I can find something erudite hidden in her rare insightful column. A punditocracy, as vacant as the one we are left with after the Bush years, which gave too easy a target to the hordes of writers from all media, is too weak for the current world.

While it is a relief to click on David Brooks column because he is approaching the world with questions that need an answer. Dowd is left with a beat without a claim to value either social or moral. I read a few columnists daily but Dowd has dropped off the bottom of that list.