The ever-alert Randy Neal was kind enough to pass along this item from Jack Lail at the KNS who had posted an entry from my blog, Tabloid Boy:

It may be tough times for big media companies, but maybe not for journalists.

Lindsay Van Gilder (italics added) of the Shopper-News says:

"These are halcyon days for newspaper nudniks like yours truly. TBI agents flitting around the City County Building, special prosecutors delving through computer and paper records for evidence of mischief, the mayor's PR people denying then "undenying" occurrences - it's great to be a reporter! Gang, we're looking at a homegrown version of Watergate here, with Mike Arms playing G. Gordon Liddy and Cynthia Finch waiting in the wings to don her John Dean makeup. What could be better?"

Here is my note to Jack:

Hi Jack. Thanks for the mention, but my name is Larry, not "Lindsey," and the last name is "Van Guilder" with the "u" included. You may have confused me with my great-uncle Lindsey, an Amazonian explorer who vanished into the tractless rain forests of Brazil some sixty years ago. It's OK, because nobody in the family cared much for Uncle Lindsey in any case.

Larry Van Guilder

(I should have added that Uncle Lindsey's last blog entry simply read: "Big village ahead." - LVG)

BTW, Jack left out the conclusion of my blog entry:

"Well, for starters, how about an executive branch that didn't call the wrath of God down upon its head? Think carefully when you choose your next mayor, Knox County. Once is enough."

So, while news these days may fall in our laps, this brand of news is nothing to celebrate.

Larry Van Guilder