Great column in Va. paper

By Jennifer J. Foster

Published: June 10, 2008

If you’re Southern, you’ll appreciate this terrific column from J. Todd Foster (no relation), managing editor of the Bristol (Va.) Herald Courier.

My favorite line:

I pity today’s TV news reporters, with 24 hours a day of airtime to fill on cable. That’s about 23 hours beyond whatever intelligent discourse they can muster.

Smack. Down.

Read the column for the comment that gave rise to that remark, and this parting shot:

It takes all kinds to comprise a country. And along the way, we have to suffer a few Andrea Mitchells.

Backwoods redneck newspaper guy, 1; out-of-touch, carpetbagging, bloviating Beltway blowhard, 0.