newsrooms as they should be

A Washington Post style copy editor takes down writer. Literally. Flying tackle and punches. 70-year-old man doing the tackling.

LAST week.

Fuck, yeah. Newsrooms as they should be: wiry, brawly people (note non-gender specific), fit and cock-eyed enough to take aggressive leaps through a desk, idea, politician.

Now, sadly, this latest brawl occurred after a slur ("cocksucker, reportedly — which among my friends can be a term of endearment, along with cuntlicker and master of cock). Sadly, this brawl was not over what *should* make it in to the paper, lack of balance in reporting or, even, grammatical choices ("I dare you to come over here and tell me Oxford commas SUCK ...").

Nonetheless, I do appreciate the sentiment, undermining the bureaucratic numbness, excess middle-management with accompanying lack of decision-making which has taken over the business. We need passion, again.

And more scotch.