The editors of our beloved hometown rag really shouldn’t venture into foreign affairs, because they always come off looking really dumb. Here are a few excerpts from Monday’s editorial:
LAST week, after a series of public strikes and almost three weeks of bloody protests, including a rally of more than 100,000 marchers through the capital of Katmandu, Nepal’s King Gyanendra finally consented to allow his 27 million subjects to be led by elected representatives.
It’s unclear where the Chron got that population figure. The CIA pegs it at more than 28 million.
On Thursday, he named a prime minister, Girija Prasad Koirala, 84 and in poor health, as the next prime minister.
Named a prime minister as prime minister? That’s just crazy enough to work! Of course, the sentence should have read, “he named a former prime minister…as the next prime minister.”
Parliament reconvened Friday for the first time in four years, and legislators proposed a cease-fire with the Maoist rebels as well as elections for a constitutional assembly.
On Thursday, the Maoists announced a three-month cease-fire.
Which is it? Did the legislators propose the cease-fire, or did the Maoists announce it? Who knows? Not the Chronicle’s editorial board, apparently.
That would be a relief for a nation torn by their strife, but it’s doubtful that transition is sure to be bumpy.
Who writes this stuff?
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There’s still time to call the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Bomb Squad!
Better yet, who edits it?
And they wonder why they have no credibility and circulation continues to plummet!
While substitute teaching at a local high school last week, I met a senior honors student who wants to major in journalism at university next year.
This kind of idiocy makes me wonder whether I should:
(a) Encourage this bright student, knowing he’ll stand head and shoulders above his peers, or
(b) Discourage him, as he’ll be as odd as galoshes on a duck, and is certain to be ostracized both in college and after graduation.
Your opinion?
IF you encourage him, at least insist he not work for a trash non-news paper like the comical or clinton news network
OR better yet, teach him integrity and he’ll find another profession on his own!