Latenight In GordSnookland...The Pundit Irrelevancy

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Update at the bottom of (this admittedly rather thin-grueled) post...

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I'll have more to say about this later (maybe), but as the clock chimes midnight and the late night sports talk radio world once again becomes  Ben Maller's playpen for the next 36 hours or so, I can't help but notice how the weekend columns by the Vancouver Sun's Vaughn Palmer and The Globe's Gary Mason are, essentially, pale, late-arriving imitations of all that has been said and re-said in the Lotuslandian Bloggodome all week long.

So.

I don't know about you, dear reader...

But I, for one, sure am glad to see that The Dean and Rob Obvious are almost keeping up.

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Here's the real thing though....

With their star pundits now consistently bringing up the rear 3 times out of 5, where do the geniuses at Postmedia and/or BellGlobeTSNCTVRDSEverythingElseMedia actually think folks will go (and/or nothave to pay for) when they go looking for analysis after those online subscription thingies kick in for real?

(and please note, I am not talking about reporters here....Instead, I'm talking about columnists)

Saturday Morning Silver Linings Update....Because of something a reader mentioned offline, I went back through the archives....And, yes, the Dean himself  did make the Wizards of soon-to-be Snookland very happy indeed when he wurlitzered-up the afore-mentioned 'Nettleton Letter' back during the LINO-Party Leadership Daze......Oh, and apropos of pretty much nothing other than the 'update' sub-header above...Did you know that there are actually pages and pages of stuff on gruel recipes archived in the googleplex?....I kid you not.

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And something else worth noting...It never ceases to amaze me how often the proMedia punditry does not give credit where credit is due regarding who actually broke the story they are pontificating on...In this particular instance why can't they, like pretty much everyone in the Bloggodome did, give credit to Alex Browne of the Peace Arch News for breaking the 'Rich Coleman, Influence Peddler!' story?

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