Well, there was trouble with the 'Cat at the time I wrote about Paul Harvey, and what got posted wasn't what I wanted to be the final message.

What the last lines should have been were that my vote for a trustworthy newsperson was Paul Harvey, because he was as good as most of them.

Actually, Molly Ivins comes about as close as any to being truthful and is one of my favorite columnists.

I wonder, sometimes, if we could *stand* hearing the truth, seeing as how much it would interfer with our (and I mean this personally, including myself) view of the world.

What ever happened to the old AP lead of the "5 W's and an H"? Even modified AP leads told more than today's leads.

(By the way: Paul Harvey was against the Vietnam War. Not on moral grounds, mind you -- he said that if we weren't willing to win we should get out -- but he was one of the first news reporters to come out publicly and unequivocally against the US being there. I'll grant you that he's a little to the right....)