more slacktivism
March 11th, 2004
Look, I’m not about to reproduce the whole of the
latest slacktivist article here. I’m just not going to do it. But
that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t read it.
OK, damn, I have to quote you this one passage:
Consider, for example, that we had to rewrite a headline in the paper
recently that referred to the “record-breaking deficit.” The problem
was it didn’t tell readers which record-breaking deficit the
story was about – the budget deficit? the trade deficit? the pension
insurance deficit? With this president, “record-breaking deficit” is a
category.